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Crossing through the Midwest in the winter of 1703, the Lakota traverse a frozen lake, and discover that a tremendous herd of bison has been trapped beneath the
by DoreenMichele 6y ago
Crossing through the Midwest in the winter of 1703, the Lakota traverse a frozen lake, and discover that a tremendous herd of bison has been trapped beneath the ice. The natural refrigerator feeds them all winter. The book contains multiple moments of this kind of shocking, strange beauty, as when in a major conference women drop pieces of buffalo fat into their tipi fires at night, turning lodges into gigantic lanterns in a “sea of sparkling light.”
This is a book review. The book is 544 pages. This is just an enticing taste of what it contains.
- ThisIsTheWay 6y agoI've added this to my reading list, thanks for sharing. In another thread earlier today I was talking about the book American Buffalo by Steven Rinella. He has a whole section dedicated to the demise of bison in water, mud, floods, and swamps. In one bit he mentions that an entire herd was killed when they ran into a river too deep to ford, resulting in a literal stream of tens of thousands of bison corpses floating down the river.
- temp0826 6y agoReminded me of buffalo/bison jumps [0] where land features were used to hunt entire herds to great effect [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_jump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_jump
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoreminds me of an episode of Z Nation (also featuring native Americans) where they have a big herd of zombies run into the Grand Canyon.
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