在欧洲人进入北美之前,估计有6000万头野牛分布于美洲大平原。从大约1830年起,它们就被有组织的捕猎,只有一小部分幸存了下来。当时,人们捕杀野牛的原因很简单,因为捕杀野牛可以获得野牛皮,或者仅仅是因为有些移民认为野牛妨碍了他们而杀掉它们,像类似于野牛比尔这样的屠杀者数以千计。
At the end there was also a deliberate policy of wiping out the lumbering giants in order toremove the staple food source of Native Americans and to force them on to reservations.Last weeks buffalo homecoming was an emotional event for the Gros Ventre and Salish-Kootenai tribes who witnessed it.
最后,为驱逐美洲原住民,当时的政府出台政策,鼓励人们杀掉这些动作缓慢的大型动物,阻断原住民的主要食物来源,从而迫使他们搬到到保留区去。上周,美国怀俄明州格若斯维崔和蒙大拿萨利希库特奈部落见证了美洲野牛的回乡之旅,对于他们来说,心情百感交集。
Ultimately it is logic and enormous ambition that lie behind the return of the buffalo toMontana. The idea, says Sean Gerrity, president of the American Prairie Reserve , acharity, is to create the largest wildlife reserve anywhere in the contiguous 48 states. MrGerrity wants to rebuild a vast native prairie of 3.6m acres where anenormous herd of wild buffalo can roam free once again.
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