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Imagining Head-Smashed-In, Aboriginal buffalo hunting on the northern Plains, Jack W. Brink

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Jack W. Brink

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, working with their knowledge of the land and of buffalo behaviour, drove their quarry over a cliff and into wooden corrals. The rest of the group butchered the kill in the camp below. Author Jack Brink, who devoted 25 years of his career to "The Jump," has chronicled the cunning, danger, and triumph in t

The buffalo jump -- The buffalo -- A year in the life -- The killing field -- Rounding up -- The great kill -- Cooking up the spoils -- Going home -- The end of the buffalo hunt -- The past becomes the present -- Epilogue: just a simple stone

Aboriginal buffalo hunting on the northern Plains