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  2. Métis buffalo hunting - Wikipedia

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    The summer hunting range was west of the Red River of the North in the Sioux territory of the Dakotas Homes on narrow river lots along the Red River near St. Boniface in July, 1822 by Peter Rindisbacher Paul Kane witnessed and participated in the annual Métis buffalo hunt in June 1846 on the prairies in Dakota. Métis buffalo hunting began on ...

  3. Jean Baptiste Wilkie - Wikipedia

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    Jean Baptiste Wilkie (c. 1803–1886) was a Métis warrior, buffalo hunter and chief from the area of Pembina, North Dakota. Wilkie's father, Alexander, was of Scottish origin and his mother was a Chippewa named Mezhekamkijkok. In the mid-1820s, he operated a horse ranch on the Red River in an area now known as St. Vital, Manitoba. During this ...

  4. Battle of Grand Coteau - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Grand Coteau, or the Battle of Grand Coteau du Missouri, was fought between Métis buffalo hunters of Red River and the Sioux in what is now North Dakota between July 13 and 14, 1851. The Métis won the battle, the last major one between the two groups. [1] The buffalo hunt was a yearly event for the Métis of the Red River Colony.

  5. Bison hunting - Wikipedia

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    The Crow Indian Buffalo Hunt diorama at the Milwaukee Public Museum. A group of images by Eadweard Muybridge, set to motion to illustrate the animal's movement. Bison hunting (hunting of the American bison, also commonly known as the American buffalo) was an activity fundamental to the economy and society of the Plains Indians peoples who inhabited the vast grasslands on the Interior Plains of ...

  6. Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians - Wikipedia

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    As the fur trade and buffalo hunting diminished available resources, the landless Turtle Mountain Chippewas, though recognized by the Government, found it difficult to ward off starvation. In an effort to provide them with a reservation, Congress approved the purchase on 3 March 1873, of lands on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota and ...

  7. Buffalo jump - Wikipedia

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    A buffalo jump, or sometimes bison jump, is a cliff formation which Indigenous peoples of North America historically used to hunt and kill plains bison in mass quantities. The broader term game jump refers to a man-made jump or cliff used for hunting other game , such as reindeer.

  8. Buffalo, North Dakota - Wikipedia

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    As of the 2010 census, there were 188 people, 92 households, and 52 families living in the city.The population density was 817.4 inhabitants per square mile (315.6/km 2). ...

  9. Buffalo pound - Wikipedia

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    The buffalo pound was a hunting device constructed by native peoples of the North American plains for the purpose of entrapping and slaughtering American bison, also known as buffalo. It consisted of a circular corral at the terminus of a flared chute through which buffalo were herded and thereby trapped.