And now:Sonja Keohane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Forwarded with permission:
This comes from Jim Horsley the author of the work: "Washita -
Genocide on the Great Plains" available at the following site:
<http://www.dickshovel.com/was.html>
Anyone with comment or ideas about Jim's find here, they would be
most welcome. It would be appreciated if you could contact Jim at this
address:
"Moorhead Health Care" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
And please, cc the list, or if not on the list cc me
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and I will forward.
Thanks
Sonja
>From: "Moorhead Health Care" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mary Meagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: migratory path
>Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:51:13 -0600
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> Hi-- I am in the middle of a research project on the migratory
>buffalo at Yellowstone National Park. How close is the Yellowstone
>River, including its headwaters, to the migratory path of the buffalo?
>If the buffalo were allowed to be free roaming could they get to the area
>north of the Yellowstone River? The reason I ask this is that I have
>discovered an old Blackfoot treaty that apparently makes the region
>bounded by the Rockies, the Yellowstone, the Musselshell and Missouri a
>"common hunting-ground" for all Indians for 99 years since 1855. Yes, it
>was relinquished, but illegally in my opinion. I am working on something
>to show that the ceding was totally without binding force, but I need to
>know if that area would be of use in the management of the Yellowstone
>herd vis-a-vis its migratory journey down >from the mountains. My best,
> Jim Horsley Moorhead Healthcare Center Moorhead, MN
>
