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Excessive buffalo hunting was supported by the government.

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The buffalo hunting rate was way greater than the actual consumption of them. "People would shoot buffalo from train windows", meaning they just shot them for no reason and left them there.

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They had many contradicting points as they would tell soldiers to kill as many bison as they could, but a telegram sent to Washington D.C. had stated that "they were not commanding them to kill bison."

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Forced relocation and/or slaughter of Natives was "the only way to bring a lasting peace and allow civilizations to advance" (General Phil Sheridan)

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It highlights how desperate Americans were to expand, as U.S. army troops were being told "kill every buffalo you can."
They knew this would make Indigenous people lose their land, so they made sure to kill off as much of their food sources as they could

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The Americans wanted the Natives gone. They hunted buffalo not because it was popular, but because they knew buffalos' significance to Native cultures.

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This source mainly focuses on the buffalo trade being one of the main reasons for Native erasure, but they don't focus the colonists' brutality

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"Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone."
The Americans wanted whole tribes of Natives to be removed.

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Facts in this source contain the idea of how the buffalo trade "contributed to the rapid reduction of the Plain Indian tribes by the 1870s"