Imagining Head-Smashed-In

Imagining Head-Smashed-In
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Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9781897425046
ISBN-13 : 189742504X
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Download or read book Imagining Head-Smashed-In written by Jack Brink and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, working with their knowledge of the land and of buffalo behaviour, drove their quarry over a cliff and into wooden corrals. The rest of the group butchered the kill in the camp below


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