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Re: Teaching vs Indoctrination ?
« Reply #300 on: February 27, 2018, 08:48:19 am »
It wasn't farmland and they didn't "raise" buffalo as far as I know, they hunted wild buffalo.  But yes where Buffalo roamed in the plains in the prairie provinces you can make a case for that.  Though most of Canada contained no buffalo.

The buffalo were not only a source of food, all parts of the buffalo were put to use. The fat could become cooking oil or used to make soap. The hair could be used to make pillows and ropes. The bones were used for things like knifes, arrowheads, scrapers, shovels, winter sleds, saddle trees, etc. The stomach was used to make pots, buckets, dishes, etc. The horns to make cups and ladles. The hooves could be used to make glue. The brains were used in preparing the hide... and the hide made countless useful items: clothing, shelter, shields, buckets, ropes, drums, saddles, bags, etc.

No, of course they didn't "raise" the buffalo but they hunted them and depended greatly on them. The Europeans took away their lifeblood by destroying the buffalo. Yes, there were other parts of North America where the natives depended on other bounty of the land that were also destroyed like the one plentiful brook trout or how about the most important of all a reliable clean water source. The argument that the native village is the only land the native can have claim to is often made like it was above and ignores the reality of the larger ecosystem they were part of. In many cases their native village itself was stolen and they were displaced to other areas on the false narrative that all land is equal.