For those unaware, massive herds of buffalo in the US were slaughtered in an attempt to keep Native Americans, many of whom were dependent on hunting the herds as they migrated, in one place where they could be watched and controlled. A very ugly piece of our history.
America’s genocide
Hey now, we have more than one
and we’re doing it again in the middle east right now
But… This could make some white children uncomfortable! So we probably shouldn’t mention it in the history books.
I get into a bit of an internet slap-fight about this topic here: https://slrpnk.net/post/13729485/11259214 My sleep-deprived brain was hysterically lost, and I thought I was replying to different post. Despite this, I think it fits well here.
One of many parts of my country’s history that makes me sad.
Imagine being proud of wholesale slaughter, so much so that you pose with the mountain of skulls.
Have you met any trump supporters? This is them, where bison skulls are metaphors for good works.
Or metaphors for liberals.
To be fair, that is an impressive mountain of skulls.
Humans really are stupid fuck ups.
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A monument of national shame
Such a shame.
The term “historyporn” implies I would take some kind of enjoyment from the photo. Not this one.
The Great American Buffalo is a must watch.
I would say crime of the century right here, but then you also have to consider the activities of the British Empire during this era.
yeah, the intentional extirpation of a species is pretty heinous, but i mean… look at what the Dutch were doing that century. or what was happening at plantations and mines around the world. hell, compared to what’s happening at mines and plantations and factories around the world today.
makes you realize it’s not really worth comparing evils beyond a certain point. it’ll only serve to make you feel bad and maybe hurt someone’s feelings for no reason.
This mountain of skulls is a sign of a horrible crime, committed to facilitate an even more horrible crime.
And yet it wasn’t even in the top 10 of worst things humans did that century
this image always terrifies me. humans are fully capable and willing to do this kind of thing, particularly before the age of modern photography and video.
I will say that there were indigenous American tribes that weren’t much better in terms of how they treated bison. Some hunted them pretty sustainably, but the Blackfoot believed that if you didn’t kill the whole herd, the rest of them would learn to be wary of humans. So they drove the whole herd off a cliff. They only harvested a small portion of that herd when they were done, which is why there are just massive piles of bones at the bases of those cliffs.
Oh man, then don’t look up what happened to the people that used to hunt these things.
History aside, dude on the bottom is one loose jaw bone away from being buried alive in Buffalo skulls
Very high
resolutiondefinition. Must have been a rather big camera and long exposure.
