[lbo-talk] Thoughts on Palin and Sexism

[John Thornton]

Yep, you're wrong. More than simply starve however.
The slaughter of the buffalo was specifically to deprive Native 
American's of a primary source of food, clothing, housing, etc.
By killing the buffalo the Govt. felt it could more easily control 
nomadic tribes who needed the buffalo to survive.

John Thornton

Chris Doss wrote:
> I might be wrong about this, but I think the buffalo were killed to make railroads possible, not to starve the Native Americans.
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> --- On Sat, 9/6/08, Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote:
>  The same kind of
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>> yahoos who
>> rode the railroad out here and kill bufflo by the millions
>> in order to
>> immiserate the Native American tribes who depended on open
>> ranges and
>> natural herds. 
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