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Not the least bit Genocide.....
What a dope you are, ErroneousJoe.
Not only ignorant, but you are happy to spread lies and slander.
It was the Indians who wholesale-slaughtered the buffalo.
How about I show what what a knuckle-head you are?
A favourite Indian device was the ‘jump’, which meant stampeding herds of animals overa cliff, so that the fall would kill them. In his book "Playing God in Yellowstone," Alston Chase describes the effect of these jumps on species numbers:
"The Vore buffalo jump site in Wyoming...was used five times between 1550 and 1690,
and holds the remains of 20,000 buffalo. That means 4,000 or more buffalo were killed each time the jump was used. Other buffalo jumps in the West display the remains of as many as 300,000 buffalo. These sites were so numerous, in fact, and held such large deposits of bone, that for many years they were mined as a source of phosphorus for fertilizer!"
Chase cites Frison, G.C., "Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains," pp.239-44.
"....the remains of 20,000 buffalo."
More?
American Indians were almost certainly responsible for the extinction of many large mammal species:
"Until ten thousand years ago an incredible bestiary of mammals roamed North America.
These were the so-called mega-fauna, an exotic menagerie that included the woolly
mammoth, saber-toothed tiger, giant sloth, giant beaver, camel, horse, two-toed horse,
and dire wolf. These were the dominant fauna on this continent for tens of millions of
years. Then suddenly and mysteriously they disappeared."
Ibid.