Imagining Head Smashed In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains

• Autor principal: Jack W. Brink (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Eletrônico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Athabasca University Press 2008
• Assuntos: northern plains; buffalo; UNESCO heritage site; aboriginal hunting
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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, worki...