Synopsis
The Plains Indians and their buffalo culture, from the pre-horse era through the mountain men and hide hunters to the decimation of the herds; Tahtonka, 1966.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 27 minutes
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★★★★★ · Should be required viewing...... · Thundercatroar2099 · 2018-05-21
A lot of people look at history through a Eurocentric eye, but it is refreshing, and poignant to say the least, to see the history of the Western native peoples from their point of view. I realize that Native Americans, Indians, have their own history of warfare, and that they were capable of great violence against rival tribes of their own, but I weep at what we have lost, and what we could have lost, with the wholesale slaughter of the modern bison, and by proxy, the native peoples of America in the West. Though he played a role in the near extinction of the buffalo, William Temple Hornaday…