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...Omaha artifacts were acquired between 1884 and 1889 by anthropologist Alice Fletcher, who later donated them to the Peabody Museum. The collection consisted of animal skins, bottles, shells, and boxes associated with bison hunt rituals and the Sacred Pole, a revered totem that according to the Gazette "embodied the spirit of the tribe." When Fletcher was in Nebraska, the "ritual objects were no longer being used" and would probably have been destroyed had she not saved them...
Though there are no documented cases of wild bison infecting cattle with brucellosis (which causes cows to abort their calves), Montana in 1985 decided to fight the disease by letting hunters kill bison that wandered out of Yellowstone National Park. The tactic aroused a national outcry. In the worst slaughter, two winters ago, hunters killed 569 of the park's 2,700 bison...
This year Governor Stan Stephens hopes to defuse some of the public anger when the shooting resumes. Under his new plan, hunters will be permitted to shoot only straying male bison. Federal park rangers and state game wardens will kill the females, and the meat will be distributed to needy people. Bison calves will be captured and neutered, then sold at public auction. The proceeds will pay for the butchering of their mothers...
Even the league favorites were pummelled. Yale, playing without QB Darin Kehler, got crushed by previously winless UConn, 44-7, and Cornell was spiked by the Bucknell Bison...
...plains northwest of Fort Pierre, S. Dak., and put his purebred cattle on grass. They were devastated in the 1966 blizzard, and so Houck decided to experiment with buffalo. Today he has 3,000 head that seem to thrive in the cold and the heat. Houck slaughters a thousand bison a year and sells all the meat he can produce. Bill Mathers doubts he will ever switch to bison. But as he stands on Horse Creek Butte and looks at his land, he won't rule it out totally. The land in the end will decide...