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, worki...
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Main Author: | Jack W. Brink (auth) |
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Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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Athabasca University Press
2008
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