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Bison and People on the North American Great Plains A Deep Environmental History

By: Geoff Cunfer(Editor), Bill Waiser(Editor), Sterling Evans(Foreword By)
323 pages, 20 colour & 11 b/w photos, 10 colour illustrations, 5 colour maps, colour tables
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The near-disappearance of the American bison in the nineteenth century is commonly understood to be the result of over-hunting, capitalist greed, and all but genocidal military policy. This interpretation remains seductive because of its simplicity; there are villains and victims in this familiar cautionary tale of the American frontier. But as this volume of groundbreaking scholarship shows, the story of the bison's demise is actually quite nuanced.

Bison and People on the North American Great Plains brings together voices from several disciplines to offer new insights on the relationship between humans and animals that approached extinction. The essays here transcend the border between the United States and Canada to provide a continental context. Contributors include historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, palaeontologists, and Native American perspectives.

This book explores the deep past and examines the latest knowledge on bison anatomy and physiology, how bison responded to climate change (especially drought), and early bison hunters and pre-contact trade. It also focuses on the era of European contact, in particular the arrival of the horse, and some of the first known instances of over-hunting. By the nineteenth century, bison reached a "tipping point" as a result of new tanning practices, an early attempt at protective legislation, and ventures to introducing cattle as a replacement stock. The book concludes with a Lakota perspective featuring new ethnohistorical research.

Bison and People on the North American Great Plains is a major contribution to environmental history, western history, and the growing field of transnational history.

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Geoff Cunfer is associate professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan and the author of On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment, winner of the Agricultural History Society's Theodore Saloutos Book Award.

Bill Waiser is distinguished professor emeritus of history at the University of Saskatchewan. A specialist in western and northern Canadian history, he is the author or editor of fourteen books, including Saskatchewan: A New History and Park Prisoners: The Untold Story of Western Canada's National Parks, 1915-1946.

By: Geoff Cunfer(Editor), Bill Waiser(Editor), Sterling Evans(Foreword By)
323 pages, 20 colour & 11 b/w photos, 10 colour illustrations, 5 colour maps, colour tables
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"Full of wonderful insights, thoughtful ideas, and fresh concepts."
– Paul H. Carlson, author of Deep Time and the Texas High Plains and The Plains Indians

"Is the controversy of who is responsible for the demise of the bison resolved? Historians and ecologists will say yes. Some Native Americans will say no. The fascinating essays in Bison and People reveal new and reinterpreted evidence to help readers unravel America's greatest mystery."
– Rosalyn LaPier, Author of Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet

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