Word: bisons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...necessarily a paleface invention. Indians of the Pacific Northwest conducted potlatches-orgies of eating, gift giving and the willful destruction of their own property. The more a man could part with, the greater his status. The prairies and the plains were once horizon-to-horizon bison. The animals were obliterated partly to feed railroad workers but mostly for sport or to furnish the rich with carriage robes and the novelty of nibbling on buffalo tongue. Great clouds of passenger pigeons were peeled from the sky with shotguns or simply captured by hand on their nightly roosts. The last...
...which sprawls over 17,300 square miles and is reputedly the world's biggest national park. Located on the 60th parallel between Alberta and the Northwest Territories, the park is laced with hundreds of lakes, forests, and meadows where whooping cranes summer and the last large herds of bison roam. There are only 16 developed campsites, though bivouacking is allowed if the visitor has a campfire permit...
...back in those days only competition in tory-baiting and tea-pot partying existed. Then came the great westward expansion and as more institutions of higher learning sprouted up, more nicknames were invented: Indians, Bulldogs, Lions, Tigers, Bears, Bobcats, Bearcats, and as the line of civilization moved west, Bison, Buffalo, Pumas and Losers. The Losers was the nickname Custer's soldiers, unlucky miners, and the Pony Express...
...plainly time that we recognize one of our great natural resources, the North American bison. Not only is the buffalo possibly an answer to cheaper beef prices, but it could also prove to be a great help in our continuing energy crisis. Buffalo chips were a main source of fuel during the settlement of the western United States. Considering the condition of the air in some of our cities the introduction of buffalo chips would have a negligible effect on the olfactory senses of most people...
...remaining pieces of the tiger's skeleton as well as more fossils, including the bones of several other extinct creatures apparently killed and dragged into the cavern by the tiger: a mastodon, an ancient horse, a long-nosed piglike creature called a peccary and a prehistoric bison. In addition, they discovered four relatively recent human remains-probably Indians of the Woodland Period (1000 B.C.-1500 A.D.). Distinguished by the artificial slope of their foreheads, a cosmetic effect achieved by the binding of their skulls during childhood, the Indians lived in the area 2,000 years ago and apparently used...