It's always hard reading about the violence committed to steal America, but the buffalo is always like... That's some inhuman shit. Everyone is burning in hell for that one. Wdym there were thirty to sixty MILLION buffalo in 1800, and by 1900 there were only 300 left. THREE HUNDRED. Do you know, can you fathom the amount of purposeful cruelty required to kill NINETY NINE PERCENT of a population of an animal, just to spite and murder the living Native people who existed and thrived with them? All this, for White Power and Entitlement?? Sickening.
I had the pleasure of visiting a bison breeding site recently. There is a natural herd that lives on a Nature Conservancy-owned plot of land which has been restored to native prairie and they are maintaining a herd which is also the source of new herds in other places.
People do terrible things but other people do great things. Never give up hope. There are baby bison frolicking in Illinois today.
Here is a picture of a baby bison I took at the Oakland Zoo in 2021.
The Oakland Zoo's bison program is in collaboration with the Blackfeet Nation in Montana. This baby was released with others from the Oakland Zoo herd as part of returning bison to the plains of Montana.
We can't erase what colonists and settlers did, but we can work to fix the damage, and many, many people and organizations are working to save the bison and re-wild them, led by the indigenous peoples of the US and Canada who have been their stewards for so long.
I encourage everyone to find out what programs and systems they can support in their local areas and communities-- it can be as fun as purchasing a zoo or museum membership if those orgs do this kind of work.
And pay your damn land tax.
I may be remembering wrong, but I'm pretty sure the bison thing was so bad that even a lot of white people in the area commented in their letters and diaries about how horrified they were by it. If it's so terrible that white Americans actively participating in 19th century western expansion Call it out, you know you fucked up




















