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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brink, Jack
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edmonton : Athabasca University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Buffalo jump > Alberta.
Indians of North America > Hunting > Alberta.
Indians of North America > Hunting > Great Plains.
Indians of North America > Alberta > Antiquities.
American bison hunting > History.
American bison.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Alberta.
Indians > Hunting > Great Plains.
Bison d'Amérique > Chasse > Histoire.
Peuples autochtones > Chasse > Grandes Plaines.
Précipices à bisons > Alberta.
Premières Nations > Alberta > Antiquités.
Bison d'Amérique.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Hunting.
American bison
American bison hunting
Antiquities
Buffalo jump
Excavations (Archaeology)
Indians of North America > Antiquities
Indians of North America > Hunting
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National Historic Site (Alta.)
Alberta > Antiquities.
Lieu historique national Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (Alta.)
Lieu historique national Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (Alb.)
Alberta > Antiquités.
Alberta
Alberta > Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National Historic Site
Great Plains
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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