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Imagining Head-Smashed-In : Aboriginal buffalo hunting on the northern Plains /

"At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brink, Jack
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edmonton : Athabasca University Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The buffalo jump
  • The buffalo
  • A year in the life
  • The killing field
  • Rounding up
  • The great kill
  • Cooking up the spoils
  • Going home
  • The end of the buffalo hunt
  • The past becomes the present
  • Epilogue: just a simple stone.