The great US plan to exterminate the buffalo and starve out the native peoples

 

US LAND GRAB POLICY AGAINST THE NATIVE PEOPLE. 

The great US plan to exterminate the buffalo and starve out the native peoples

During the 1800s, the U.S. Army realised that destroying the buffalo herds aided their efforts to force indigenous peoples onto reservations. The government of the US realised that as long as this food source was there, and as long as this key cultural element existed, it would have difficulty getting Indians onto reservations.

Colonel Richard I. Dodge in 1867 at Fort M...