Jan Steinman wrote:
>> From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Yeah. And we don't talk about all those buffalo kills where Indians
>> drove whole herds over cliffs, killing all or most, for the meat and
>> pelts of a few. I could go on for about a hundred pages here, but I
>> won't...
>>
>
> Well, it does seem true that wanton killing of bison didn't
> meaningfully reduce their numbers until white men started shooting
> them from trains. And as I recall, the First Nations people didn't
> manage to change the climate of the entire planet.
Not conclusive, but the evidence suggests that the advent of homo
sapiens in North America led to the extinction of the mammoth and saber
toothed cat.
Moose
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