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Nearly 150 years later, the buffalo slaughter hangs over American Indian wealth, study finds

Eight years ago, an economist produced a new theory that international trade played a major role in an American tragedy: the immense killing in the late 19th century that brought the North American bison close to extinction.

The idea challenged the narrative that the slaughter of the bison, or buffalo, was mainly caused by the eagerness of American and European settlers to turn grasslands into farms and move American Indians off the land.

https://www.postbulletin.com/news/business/nearly-years-later-the-buffalo-slaughter-hangs-over-american-indian/article_ed50f5e3-1a20-58b2-a3b0-37e0edd44f41.html

 

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