Beyond the technology, the United States government also encouraged the slaughter of the buffalo as a strategy to conquer the American plains Indians ... take part in the hunt.

Today’s essay is about the Sharps Rifle and its use by buffalo hunters ... submission of Native Americans to relocate on to reservations. Written accounts of buffalo hunting on the plains ...

Plains Indians had limited contact with the white ... the Assiniboines and the Blackfoot lived largely nomadic lives, hunting the vast buffalo herds across the land. By the mid-1800s, times ...