Native Americans Slaughter the Bison outside of Yellowstone

Each year, several tribes descend on the Yellowstone area to exercise their treaty rights by killing bison that have left the park in search of food. The official term for this event is "The Bison Hunt." Only, it is no hunt at all.

Bison, hungry from a hard winter that brought early snow and freezing, travel just feet beyond safety and the park boundary. The animals are quietly grazing as they continue further outside of the park, not particularly bothered by the men and women who have gathered around with their rifles, some wearing camouflage while others wear an orange vest. Bison are around park visitors that have never hurt them, other than getting in their way or something, and so they don't know that these people are carrying lethal weapons with deadly intent, instead of cameras with long lenses. The bison graze away and some even do a little play fighting right in front of the crowd.

And, then the shooting starts and the bison are confused. Some run, some stand still and others fall to the ground. Some bison are injured and struggling to stand, flopping their massive bodies back and forth. The shooting is never-ending, a crowd of men and women just shooting into a crowd, with no selection whatsoever. They just start shooting and will take whatever finds a bullet. The natives had waited for several bison to cross the imaginary line, beyond the orange painted posts, so that they could just shoot into a crowd - this mentality has no skill or marksmanship as the bullets are bound to hit an animal.

Pregnant mothers, ready to birth in two months, nine and ten month old calves and bulls up to about 5 years of age, are falling. Some are flailing on the ground as a native watches. One injured youngster, struggling to stand, is shot point blank, its misery ending.

The bison flee, heading back into Yellowstone National Park where park rangers much find the injured and put them out of their misery. A calf, shot through the ankle, limps on three legs and its young, first time mother does all she can to keep her baby moving towards safety. When the man with a rifle enters the field, that young mother run as fast as I've ever seen a bison run, with that three legged baby following behind. They intend to survive. But, the baby is shot, its body hauled to a carcass dump and the next morning, the mother is still standing where her child dropped dead. Several orphaned calves risk bullets to return to the shooting area and find their moms. The natives are ready, they want to shoot those calves.

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