Love Medicine

Love Medicine
Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Buffalo Jump


I read an article explaining how Native Americans hunted buffalo by chasing them off cliffs. These cliffs were called "buffalo jumps."

6 comments:

Ele said...

That is sad but cool at the same time. Did they do that to kill multiple at a time only? It's usually shown that they kill a few of them with their arrows and stuff but maybe that is stereotype or something.

makenzie kozojet said...

that rather disturbing

Mister Dee said...

To me, that's just asinine- you'd have to go down a steep cliff just to pick up a dead buffalo?

M P H said...

Poor buffs...

Kiberico said...

i didnt know that the indians did this to kill buffalo i thought they just threw their spears at them.

Samantha said...

It makes me sad. I don't know how I would survive long ago because I'd have a hard time watching or doing something like this. It's either that or starve though.