Buffalo reintroduction; "The West" & book recommendation

[Cudedog]

Good morning, ladies.

1. Interesting link

I found the link below interesting, and thought I would pass it on. Info on "The West" and the book recommendation is further below.

"Montana considers releasing wild bison outside of Yellowstone":

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2015/0613/Montana-considers-releasing-wild-bison-outside-Yellowstone-video

I'm sure that the ranchers in that area will be up in arms (many graze their cattle on public lands, after all) but I think it is a good (and exciting!) thing to have happen. I'm going to write in support.

2. "Ken Burns' The West"

Probably, like me, many of you are always looking for something interesting to watch on tv. Always a tough task.

I just finished watching the wonderful Ken Burns multi-part documentary, “The West”. Majorly majorly fascinating, and not a little bit depressing. I was in tears by the end.

Lots of information there that I was never taught in school. The series is available on Amazon Prime and on YouTube. Towards the end of the series there was quite a bit of information on the Nez Perce, whose original ancestral homeland (Wallowa Valley, Oregon) is not too far from the Oregon volcanoes I plan to visit. Might need to stop in the valley when I get up that way to give it a look.

3. Book Recommendation: "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee"

Don't know how many of you are readers, but my enjoyment of this series led me to the book (nonfiction) “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee”. This was a best seller twenty or thirty years ago, and greatly changed the national perception of the conflict between the European immigrants and the native peoples. I have just begun the book, and am devouring it on my Kindle (well, to be precise, on my smart phone that has the Kindle ap).

At the moment the cost of the Kindle version of the book is $1.99. Well worth the price.

Anne

[gypsyrose1126]

I checked out the video that you posted and thanks for putting that on the site. It would be nice for more buffalo to be released into the wild but with ranchers and other people you never know what will happen. Can you imagine hitting one with your car!! I have read the book you mentioned and it is very sad and depressing - while it was a brave and wondrous move for some to leave their homes and all that they knew, to travel thousands of miles to areas that had never been seen or settled before, it was also a very low point in our history to annihilate the people who had lived in these areas for thousands of years before the white men came along. I tried to look that up once, to see the actual number of Indians killed, but there are no accurate records. While reading I found out that in Mankato MN was the largest public execution in US history, when 38 Indian men were hung. Not what MN wants to be know for!