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,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.