All The Buffalo Returning

Author : Dorothy M. Johnson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803275904
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Buffalo Returning written by Dorothy M. Johnson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized account of the changing fortunes of the Hunkpapa and Oglala Sioux from the victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 to the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890.

Author : Harvey Locke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781926983226
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last of the Buffalo written by Harvey Locke and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ambrose Lane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313390789
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return of the Buffalo written by Ambrose Lane and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1995-10-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small, poverty-stricken California Indian Tribe, the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, successfully fought a long legal battle for the right to operate the business of their choice on their barren reservation—a gambling casino. This is their story, the authorized history of their epic struggle, climaxing with their victory in a 1987 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, the now-famous Cabazon Decision. Their defeated opponents included California's City of Indio and County of Riverside (called one of the most racist in the U.S. by a non-Indian resident) as well as California and 29 other states that joined California's appeal. This is also the fascinating story of the role played by a white family and its radical, socialist patriarch that helped create one of the world's most capital-intensive industries and triggered today's Indian Gaming Explosion throughout America. Hundreds of hours of taped interviews and years of documents, meeting records, and official correspondence are analyzed to give the reader a clear picture of the impact of this new massive capital on tribal life and the development of a possible future without gambling—as officials in league with Nevada and Atlantic City gambling interests continue their efforts to destroy Indian gaming. The Buffalo, literal and symbolic figure of earlier Indian financial independence, has returned in a new form—cash cow casinos.

Author : Ernest Callenbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520925144
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bring Back the Buffalo! written by Ernest Callenbach and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-10-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new epilogue Though the Plains have been in economic and population decline since the twenties, they are actually within closer reach of vibrant ecological sustainability than any other region of the country. This visionary book offers a constructive alternative to the decline of cattle ranching, depletion of underground water, and dependency on outside energy sources. It shows how bringing back the hardy, majestic bison and using the region's winds to generate power are keys to renewed economic and social health for Plains communities.

Author : Steven Rinella
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0385526857
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Buffalo written by Steven Rinella and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the host of the Travel Channel’s “The Wild Within.” A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination. In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer than 20 percent of those hunters are successful—Rinella managed to kill a buffalo on a snow-covered mountainside and then raft the meat back to civilization while being trailed by grizzly bears and suffering from hypothermia. Throughout these adventures, Rinella found himself contemplating his own place among the 14,000 years’ worth of buffalo hunters in North America, as well as the buffalo’s place in the American experience. At the time of the Revolutionary War, North America was home to approximately 40 million buffalo, the largest herd of big mammals on the planet, but by the mid-1890s only a few hundred remained. Now that the buffalo is on the verge of a dramatic ecological recovery across the West, Americans are faced with the challenge of how, and if, we can dare to share our land with a beast that is the embodiment of the American wilderness. American Buffalo is a narrative tale of Rinella’s hunt. But beyond that, it is the story of the many ways in which the buffalo has shaped our national identity. Rinella takes us across the continent in search of the buffalo’s past, present, and future: to the Bering Land Bridge, where scientists search for buffalo bones amid artifacts of the New World’s earliest human inhabitants; to buffalo jumps where Native Americans once ran buffalo over cliffs by the thousands; to the Detroit Carbon works, a “bone charcoal” plant that made fortunes in the late 1800s by turning millions of tons of buffalo bones into bone meal, black dye, and fine china; and even to an abattoir turned fashion mecca in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, where a depressed buffalo named Black Diamond met his fate after serving as the model for the American nickel. Rinella’s erudition and exuberance, combined with his gift for storytelling, make him the perfect guide for a book that combines outdoor adventure with a quirky blend of facts and observations about history, biology, and the natural world. Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, American Buffalo tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.

Author : Albert Marrin
Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving the Buffalo written by Albert Marrin and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of how the buffalo reached the brink of extinction and how it was saved.

Author : Frank H. Mayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Buffalo Harvest written by Frank H. Mayer and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiences of Mayer as a buffalo hunter.

Author : Valerius Geist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610603607
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Nation written by Valerius Geist and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and text trace the cultural and natural history of the North American bison, looking at how the U.S. government practically eliminated the buffalo in the mid-1880s in an attempt to force Native Americans onto reservations, and discussing later conservation efforts.

Author : Ken Zontek
Publisher : Bison Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Nation written by Ken Zontek and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Indian Efforts to restore the Bison.

Author : William T. Hornaday
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Extermination of the American Bison written by William T. Hornaday and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Extermination of the American Bison" by William T. Hornaday. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.