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Stephen A. Lawrence wrote.. I should know better than to pick nits with
Jed's posts..
The analogy between wolves , wolverines and humans sorta
got lost in Jed's introduction of bison to the comparison.
The wolverine is a solitary predator, vicious, smells like a skunk and is
utterly ruthless and useless in the animal world excepting as a scavenger.
The bison was replaced by beef cattle. The ranch over near me has a few
head of bison. No rancher in business to survive wastes time raising bison.
can't be herded, onery critters, too tough to keep fenced and low market demand
because the meat isn't that good. Granted that.. very few Indian
nations were bison hunters. Had more been so, the herds would have been
depleted. As it was, way back when, the total number of bison reached perhaps
200 million plus in the north American continent.
Maybe Jed would like to meet 200 million on his stretch of the interstate
highway system but since sometimes, something has to give.. it was the bison in
favor of the auto.
Lo! the poor Indian seems to have survived. What with casino gambling in
concert with the new legit mafia grandchillen, they seem to have made it into
the new century complete with cradle to grave welfare while crying all the way
to the bank.
Richard
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