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RE: The Founding of Dodge City - Cow town
@janton I taught History as well, and it was always a part of our curriculum, although most of our isn't US based, But really, the same thing unfortunately happened in Canada. That pile of buffalo skulls was a new one to me. So sickening!
howdy there @lynncoyle1! what???? you're saying that the Canadian government also paid hunters to wipe out buffalo up there so that the Indians up there had no food or hides? dang I didn't ever hear that? I don't even know what tribes Canadians had up there? had to be a little weird being the first Canadians though. huh, very interesting, thank you!
I wanted to include that buffalo skulls photo because it is so incredible to see an illustration of the numbers of them that were killed. and many had never seen anything like it.
thanks so much Lynn!
Not specifically @janton, but the Hudson's Bay Company, the major trading company in Canada at the time, was closely tied to the government and they bought all the hides, and the skulls were used as fertilizer and all the new settlers wanted them. The natives ended up signing treaties just to ward off starvation. That's all a condensed simplified version of the history, but the gist of it is, that no one cared about the natives here either!
More schools should be teaching this stuff; I'm surprised the schools in the States don't. You'd only have to show that photo to get the point across. A picture tells a story...that's for sure!!
howdy back again lynncoyle1...well were there Indian wars in Canada like we had here?
There sure were @janton, especially when they were being forced to leave their homes only to be 'contained' in certain areas/reservations etc. We had a 'wild west' of sorts, but it was always tamed because we had England's influence all the time too.
what did England do to contain it?
I meant that we had a huge English influence...needed to be more civilized that raging cowboys lol
so England DIDN'T do squat to help! it was the Canadian army like our army here. right? I'm just shocked to realize that I've never heard of any Indian wars in Canada, I didn't think of Indians being in Canada.
Oh we had plenty of Indians just like the US. There are a lot of similarities in our histories and plenty of differences, but like your civil war, we had one between the French and English that lasted for 7 years; hence the name, "The Seven Year War" haha. That's true though :)