The Largest Destruction of Animals in Modern History | The American Buffalo | A Film by Ken Burns

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  • @AbraAlahouzos
    @AbraAlahouzos 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    Thank you for paying attention to this part of history.

  • @rotofotonz5150
    @rotofotonz5150 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    This sort of decimation is still happening in our oceans today 😢

    • @windrider23
      @windrider23 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      True, for the second year in a row. Snow crab are too few to fish. Billions are no longer in the Bearing Sea.

    • @pjm204
      @pjm204 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It's happening on land too, traditional Chinese "Medicine" aims to ensure all endangered species vanish.

  • @MyJwiz
    @MyJwiz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    I appreciate learning this very important part of History 🙏🏽❤️ Unbelievably Heartbreaking History

  • @Adam-ui8iy
    @Adam-ui8iy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Man, what it would have been like to be in the Americas in the 1700's...absolutely beautiful

    • @raylopez99
      @raylopez99 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There was a plan, by a Rutgers professor, to repopulate the mid-West with plains buffalo as in the past, but it would require a lot of tunnels and overpasses (since so many roads) and buying of private property to create huge continuous regions where the buffalo (bison) would roam. It would be really expensive too, But in a more rich and advanced economy than what we have at present I think it's worth doing. And clone the passenger pigeon. And resurrect the mastodon (that would be really cool).

  • @sarcasmo57
    @sarcasmo57 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Reminds me of modern day consumerism and the destruction of the whole Earth today.

  • @ericmills9676
    @ericmills9676 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +109

    The concerted near-destruction of the buffalo was a double genocide: buffalo and Native Americans alike.

    • @twillison8824
      @twillison8824 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      You do know that some of the Native Americans also took part in the market hunting of bison too eh?

    • @martaholmes4287
      @martaholmes4287 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@twillison8824We infected them (First Nations Peoples) with more than just biological diseases. We infected them with greed. We infected them with alcohol. We infected them with Capitalism. We infected them with Christianity.

    • @Buttercup697
      @Buttercup697 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@twillison8824stop trying to erase the fact that 99.9 % of the annihilation of the American buffalo and the genocide of Native Americans lies at the feet of white America.

    • @danwalnev4832
      @danwalnev4832 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      By what percentage?@@twillison8824

    • @adanrios3247
      @adanrios3247 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@twillison8824 and they were killing and raiding each other too

  • @TdT2211
    @TdT2211 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    This has to be one of the most atrocious acts of colonization.

  • @danksinatra5977
    @danksinatra5977 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    4:10 We're all still asking the same question....

  • @alexshank1414
    @alexshank1414 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

    A travesty what we did to the Buffalo, Native Americans, and nature as a whole. Just weighs so heavily on my heart and soul. Why must we be so destructive, ignorant, and greedy?

    • @andirtkdillon
      @andirtkdillon 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      💞

    • @mcyclonegt
      @mcyclonegt 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      We didn't do that to the buffalo. Our ancestors did, and you should not take on that guilt. The sins of the fathers are not the sins of the sons.

    • @harrisonball3339
      @harrisonball3339 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      ​@@mcyclonegtr u serious stop trying to write the wrong

    • @pabloashan-deleon3088
      @pabloashan-deleon3088 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      👹 Alex1414,
      Just For CLARITY,
      👇🏿
      WHO Are The WE,
      of Which You SPEAK ❓️🤔💭

    • @mcyclonegt
      @mcyclonegt 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @harrisonball3339 I am serious. I'm not trying to right any wrong. It was wrong what our forefathers did. But I refuse to take the blame or feel guilty for something I had zero to do with.

  • @mikeythesquid1427
    @mikeythesquid1427 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    When i was in grade school, I went and a school field trip to a history museum where I saw a blown up photo of the picture that appears @ 9:20...It has haunted me ever since. beyond despicable.

  • @triangledefinition
    @triangledefinition 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    I had seen pictures of all those bones but I never knew why they were piled like that. It is so striking to hear that more money was made from their dried bones than their hides. It feels so familiar in these days. They will make more money in the future picking though the landfills of our age than we made burning the planet's opportunities with fossil fuels and minerals. Because everyone is rushing to not be left behind, to take advantage of the limited resources before someone else depletes it instead.

  • @jeffreystieve8017
    @jeffreystieve8017 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I think the devastation of passenger pigeons was greater in numbers

    • @stefansalvatierra4913
      @stefansalvatierra4913 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      From several billion to none left…

    • @dominiccarter5070
      @dominiccarter5070 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Both was bad dumb to trying to make one seem worse is childish

  • @crimeagainstcreation
    @crimeagainstcreation 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Yes, the near extermination of the American Bison is the largest single destruction of animal life in history - but don't forget that some 50 million Pronhorns were also wiped out during much the same period of time.
    However, this was on land. In the oceans there's currently a mass slaughter of sharks of a scale way beyond the Buffalo massacre. Basically just to feed the shark fin soup market an estimated 70+ million sharks are slaughtered, and that's every year.

    • @JoshSmith-ff8dw
      @JoshSmith-ff8dw 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      what a disgrace. civilization was a mistake.

  • @juliusmitchell1999
    @juliusmitchell1999 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    They took out the natives food supply

  • @davidholaday2817
    @davidholaday2817 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I’m so sad. I’m crying.

    • @TeutonicNordwind
      @TeutonicNordwind 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The term 'grow a pair' comes to mind

    • @user-oh4jq1ju7z
      @user-oh4jq1ju7z 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂

    • @LaurenceLDN
      @LaurenceLDN 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TeutonicNordwind 50 million majestic animals, annihilated...and genocide committed against the original guardians and custodians of that land. To be replaced by cattle & a people that are totally disconnected from nature (and living in the most unsustainable of ways).
      We are smart, but not wise.

  • @davidholaday2817
    @davidholaday2817 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This is very hard for me to watch.

  • @sunwukongmonkeyking5561
    @sunwukongmonkeyking5561 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What about the passenger pigeon in North America? It was once millions and billions just gone to extinction in a short span.

  • @michaelsmith3381
    @michaelsmith3381 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think the passenger pidgin holds the distinction of the largest destruction of animals in modern history, unlike the bison we can not bring them back or expand their numbers.

  • @raylopez99
    @raylopez99 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Same thing happened with whaling.

  • @anasalinas1466
    @anasalinas1466 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Incredible documentary!

  • @ash8207
    @ash8207 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sad & insufferable to see how Americans back then mistreated & slaughtered these magnificent & noble creatures with such cruelty & callousness. Just disgraceful. SMH!
    Respect to Ken Burns, as always, for bringing the dark truth of American history to light!

  • @gandalfthemead3121
    @gandalfthemead3121 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And here we are still doing this to the Wild Mustang. Please donate to the Wild Horses of America and help save an icon of the West.

    • @nicocola284
      @nicocola284 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They re not really native

  • @carolbenson6524
    @carolbenson6524 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of the saddest stories ever.

  • @michaelnunez754
    @michaelnunez754 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Glad to see the Truth of Our Past , it must be said . Manifest Destiny started by President Polk and Andrew Jackson may go down in History as the Greatest Slaughter of Human Life that depended on Bison . This is just the beginning of the truth that must be told . Hopefully this leads to the Real People that must get Reparations, and their Home and Lands back .

    • @michaelcharlesthearchangel
      @michaelcharlesthearchangel 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How can we effect the livestock that Whites depend on by 2025?

    • @Road_Rash
      @Road_Rash 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Don't worry, it won't... just a sad documentary, but nothing that'll make the government do any of that...but they might issue a public apology with nice cheap words, like they did for slavery a couple of decades or so ago...but give people money & land? That's never gonna happen...

  • @smariegalski3641
    @smariegalski3641 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Ohmygod.

  • @SankofaNYC
    @SankofaNYC 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is so HORRIBLE… America has done some really horrible things and literally destroyed entire groups of people andddd animal lol 😅🤯😔It’s just so careless, heartless, and cruel smh. This and other history should NOT be covered up

  • @mtn1793
    @mtn1793 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The same greed borne irresponsibility that destroyed so much American wildlife now threatens humanity its self with extinction. Those conservative book burners would have us deny the lessons of this history to continue the onslaught of human ignorance.

  • @GH-oi2jf
    @GH-oi2jf 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    “Decimated” means reduced by one-tenth. I think more bison than that were killed.

    • @codymoe4986
      @codymoe4986 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Congratulations on the random pile of Google puke...

    • @codymoe4986
      @codymoe4986 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      P.S. Do you think that a word, that's origin dates back thousands of years, might take on new meanings to modern society?
      Nope, you just want to regurgitate some "knowledge"....

    • @bennichols1113
      @bennichols1113 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for understanding history and language. Decimated is so often misused.

    • @nicocola284
      @nicocola284 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes no need to be aggressive though

    • @eh3477
      @eh3477 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Merriam-Webster dictionary: "to reduce drastically especially in number", and, "to cause great destruction or harm to". It's a very commonly accepted use of the word.

  • @canucklehead70
    @canucklehead70 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    looks like windows xp wallpaper 2:02

  • @nicksmyth-kirk6926
    @nicksmyth-kirk6926 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Who wrote the poem at the start of part 2, into the storm, Lord James Pace?? I didn’t quiet catch it on tv and can’t find an episode to rewatch and hear poem again. How relevant for modern days.

  • @jjdonnellan1
    @jjdonnellan1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And this is called " civilization " !

  • @robertbentzel8105
    @robertbentzel8105 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When is this going to be televised

    • @usnchief1339
      @usnchief1339 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      it was

  • @johnrobb9408
    @johnrobb9408 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Ted explains it best with "White Buffalo ".

  • @abishemui8278
    @abishemui8278 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great Video!

  • @acharyajamesoermannspeaker6563
    @acharyajamesoermannspeaker6563 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was a factoid I did not know before that the bones brought more than the hides in the end.

  • @inquisitvem6723
    @inquisitvem6723 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    $25,000 back then must have been worth a few $ million now

  • @mikemccutcheon8372
    @mikemccutcheon8372 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Carrier pigeons? Come on guys stop it

    • @seveglider8406
      @seveglider8406 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The extinction, especially ones caused by humans, is tragic!

  • @pampermenetwork
    @pampermenetwork 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Absolutely disgusting.

  • @spankhill7722
    @spankhill7722 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Decimated? So there should be 9/10 of the bison left

  • @JH-ks6pq
    @JH-ks6pq 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you US Gov't for returning management of these greatest of creatures to those our American Indians, who originally lived with them, respectfully.

  • @bruce-qm5fl
    @bruce-qm5fl 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Everything bad starts with Government . Two of my ancestors were Buffalo hunters. They put a curse on my bloodline that has endured to this day.

    • @raylopez99
      @raylopez99 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How do you know it wasn't an Indian curse? Unless that's what you mean by "they".

  • @frankmorris4790
    @frankmorris4790 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Ya know, PBS never lets us down. ALWAYS attaching todays morals to the actions and actors of the past.

    • @martaholmes4287
      @martaholmes4287 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Quit rationalizing our bad behavior! There were white people back East then who decried our stealing land and resources from First Nations Peoples. They. Knew. It. Was. Wrong. You don't need a religion or laws to tell you that! But most white people just didn't care.

    • @icemike1
      @icemike1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Right transcends time

    • @jmdjohn1931
      @jmdjohn1931 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you

    • @frankmorris4790
      @frankmorris4790 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Right according to whom?@@icemike1

    • @icemike1
      @icemike1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@frankmorris4790 right

  • @Intothelight1981
    @Intothelight1981 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Human greed knows no bounds!

  • @lars277
    @lars277 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    So sorry, but decimated is not the correct word. That means 10% were wiped out. 'Nearly annihilated' would be a much more accurate usage.

    • @triangledefinition
      @triangledefinition 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Decimated can also mean 90% were wiped out and 10% remain.

    • @yrutrynme
      @yrutrynme 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I used the word decimate in regards to this topic a few months ago and had somebody say the exact same thing to me.....

    • @TeutonicNordwind
      @TeutonicNordwind 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@triangledefinition NO

  • @mwhitelaw8569
    @mwhitelaw8569 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Been talking to people about this for near 40 years now. So many simply do not know whats not taught
    The tragic story of this ground cannot be silenced. The forever stain of ourselves

    • @codymoe4986
      @codymoe4986 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Ourselves" You got a mouse in your pocket?

  • @user-ev1ty9pm8p
    @user-ev1ty9pm8p 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Decimation is one of the most frequently mis-used words nowadays. We humans are seldom so restrained.

    • @user-ev1ty9pm8p
      @user-ev1ty9pm8p 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The buffalo were almost wiped out. To me, that goes waaay beyond any definition of 'decimation'. @@nicks2581

    • @darincurrington838
      @darincurrington838 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well said

    • @doctorshawzy6477
      @doctorshawzy6477 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      yes..use ancient definitions..modern is wrong

  • @plinyTheelder1967
    @plinyTheelder1967 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    in alaska, at the bone yard, they are finding all the animals of the northern plains frozen in the permafrost. There is every type of animal you can imagine, buffalo, elk, deer, cats, and wolfs, horse, and many more. If there are only buffalo, what happened to all the other animals that live along side them? If there were 30 million buffalo, then there were equal numbers of the other grazing animal and a proportional amount of predators. who killed them? and who left them dead untouched on the ground to rot and bleach in the sun? sounds like water killed them.

  • @huypt7739
    @huypt7739 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Parentless calves were safe from hunt???

    • @stefansalvatierra4913
      @stefansalvatierra4913 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But without the protection of the adults, they would be vulnerable to predators like wolves and bears. Not to mention succumbing to the brutal winters…

    • @Road_Rash
      @Road_Rash 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They were too small to be seen as valuable...no need to waste bullets & powder on something that wouldn't pay well...

  • @prawnstar9213
    @prawnstar9213 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Have no words for this act of evil.. I don’t understand how/why AFTER the abolishment of slaves this continued.. to cause a population of people the starve.. a population that deemed the buffalo/bison sacred. The cruelty of starving anyone.. children and Mothers.

  • @George76124
    @George76124 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sounded strange to hear : I wish you enjoyed the video...."it about a tragedy " Mrs.......!

  • @jdjones6563
    @jdjones6563 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    PBS news hour dosen't let people comment. Why? I thought they cared about the people's opinions.

  • @harmonygritz2839
    @harmonygritz2839 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The greedy can never have enough.

  • @lifestudent2472
    @lifestudent2472 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I am going to ignore the cultural equation but could anyone have domesticated the buffalo ?

    • @raylopez99
      @raylopez99 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bison. Yes they're around today. The domesticated version is the cow.

    • @lifestudent2472
      @lifestudent2472 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@raylopez99 I believe "cattle " was evolved from the Aurochs of ' Pakistan and Turkey . I am wondering what would have been involved in domesticating the buffalo / bison line of North America . Are there domesticated bison now ?

    • @raylopez99
      @raylopez99 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lifestudent2472 Probably. I recall eating a bison burger back in the day.

  • @stevohodgskin
    @stevohodgskin 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Question: was the uncontrolled breading of buffalo destined to be a future environmental disaster, and are they responsible for some of the desert's in the US?
    Herds the size of small states roaming the country with no real predators to keep numbers in control, drinking water holes dry, and being forceed to eating plants to their roots!!
    How can that not equal an unavoidable environmental disaster?

  • @johnberry1107
    @johnberry1107 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I sure wish them others would quit making animals extinct.

  • @magnus9165
    @magnus9165 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Decimation means one tenth removed. Annihilated would be a much more accurate word. Deci=10, remember, or didn't you make it to the 7th grade?

    • @JoshSmith-ff8dw
      @JoshSmith-ff8dw 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      colloquial usage of the word. nerd.

  • @lightningdriver81
    @lightningdriver81 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Terrible to be sure. But they’re back.

  • @alitlweird
    @alitlweird 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    1880s is _modern_ history?

  • @joyschtik
    @joyschtik 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Who were the savages really?

    • @user-lv4en4hb7l
      @user-lv4en4hb7l 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The descendants of vikings

  • @Jasta1122
    @Jasta1122 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Enjoy? What part of that clip was enjoyable? What a shameful act.

  • @nujissjiss885
    @nujissjiss885 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They smile over those shot bodies like evil demons

  • @bigpump2620
    @bigpump2620 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Predators didn't even have to bother with humans or starve there was so much meat.....

  • @SaxSith
    @SaxSith 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So the native wouldn’t have anything to eat. Don’t you know that? “Americans “

  • @Catlady77777
    @Catlady77777 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Too disgusting to watch.

  • @thomasrape4616
    @thomasrape4616 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    If the buffalo hadn't been nearly wiped out the great plains wouldn't have been turned into the greatest farm region in the world, essentially feeding the world.

    • @seveglider8406
      @seveglider8406 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Your comment confirms your abundance of ignorance!

    • @Hotmeat69
      @Hotmeat69 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      How’s that world looking these days?

    • @nicocola284
      @nicocola284 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I would say yes however see how much food is waisted everyday, mcdonalds litterally throw away tons of nuggets every evening, people throw most of the food they receive (full of pesticide and dangerous conservators) or eat too much and become obese. You don't need to produce so much.

    • @JohnyAnderson-hk2nj
      @JohnyAnderson-hk2nj 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@nicocola284gosh its so annoying cuz it could be better but it's like we are so far gone how tf would we even change it's such a. Sad reality

  • @VagaBumAdventures
    @VagaBumAdventures 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    As a native: While white killed more Bison, we natives specifically hunted bison cows (easier to hunt and skin) resulting in greater population decrease than white hunters (according to Dr. Flores, professor of history).

    • @seveglider8406
      @seveglider8406 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dr. Flores is LIAR!

    • @codymoe4986
      @codymoe4986 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Native...born unto a place.
      P.S. Anyone born in the Americas, is Native American, by definition.
      Simply list the tribal name of your indigenous ancestors, if you are so interested in differentiating yourself from the other 8 billion HUMANS on this planet...

    • @LaurenceLDN
      @LaurenceLDN 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's an interesting take on history, one that doesn't tally in any way with the evidence.
      (A remarkable coincidence that the westward expansion of European settlers, and the rail roads, also coincided with the almost complete eradication of 50 million bison).

  • @Orang315
    @Orang315 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    😱😱🥳🙀🙀😵‍💫😵‍💫😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Ohhhhh The white man did soo much damage . 😾 Gimme a break !

  • @nightwolfog762
    @nightwolfog762 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Little did they know they starved their own nation 🪶

  • @aaronjohnson2850
    @aaronjohnson2850 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What the buffalo hunters did is absolutely a disgrace and is something that the usa should always be ashamed of because it is absolutely shameful what they did

    • @codymoe4986
      @codymoe4986 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The USA is comprised entirely of buffalo hunters, and/or their ancestors??

  • @captain54526
    @captain54526 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Elk almost met the same feat. The U.S. should have had a management policy in place as it did not !!!!!!!!!!!

    • @TeutonicNordwind
      @TeutonicNordwind 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No. Nobody imagined it could happen yet and the data was not available yet.

  • @user-qs2us1qf4j
    @user-qs2us1qf4j 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This reminds me of all the human giant bones that were bought up and then destroyed.
    Also the aborigine bones supplied by bounty hunters as a missing link to evolution of man .

  • @doctorshawzy6477
    @doctorshawzy6477 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    decimated= remove one tenth

    • @codymoe4986
      @codymoe4986 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How's ancient Rome, this time of year?
      P.S. Look up the modern definition...

  • @phl3409
    @phl3409 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They were bison not buffalo!

  • @bridgetstoli2347
    @bridgetstoli2347 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    'Decimate' means killing one in ten of a group. I expect better word use in headlines from PBS.

    • @eh3477
      @eh3477 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's a commonly accepted use of the word. Like many words in the English language, it has multiple meanings which may evolve over time. Merriam-Webster dictionary: "to reduce drastically especially in number", and "to cause great destruction or harm to".

  • @philoctetes_wordsworth
    @philoctetes_wordsworth 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Annihilation. Annihilation of the species, not decimation. To decimate a thing is to reduce it by one tenth, hence the deci-. I would have thought people at PBS would know better.

    • @TdT2211
      @TdT2211 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It's a ken burns doc, so....

    • @clarencetse
      @clarencetse 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      That's only if you're a stickler for literal old-style definitions. Last I checked we don't live in ancient Rome.

    • @davidholaday2817
      @davidholaday2817 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well, maybe they didn’t know better. But also, Buffalo are still alive, so you can’t technically say “annihilation.”

    • @moofree
      @moofree 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also quarantines are always exactly 40 days.

    • @commondominator4413
      @commondominator4413 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@davidholaday2817Bison, there's no such thing as an American Buffalo, so PBS and Ol' Ken missed that one as well.

  • @beepboop204
    @beepboop204 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

  • @user-rv7mo8fx3g
    @user-rv7mo8fx3g 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    With all the talk about too many cattle at about 28 million today in U.S.A. there were 30 million buffalo removed from the environment with apparently no 'climate impact'.

    • @LaurenceLDN
      @LaurenceLDN 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      30 million buffalo and ~4 million people...vs 300 million mass consumer humans + 30 million cattle reliant on cultivated food and antibiotics
      (USA has also overseen the destruction of vast ecosystems and forests that provide vital ecosystem services).

  • @tonyperkins8591
    @tonyperkins8591 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yeah they just brushed over this in our school system growing up, I'm probably the last gen when they didn't talk about, maybe because I mightve scalped my teachers that got me in trouble only to go home and get beat. What a world where I can't walk out my door and hunt for food too much $, gotta buy this,that this and that, be licensed. A bunch a bull$!@#

  • @gene.digger
    @gene.digger 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    such a wasteful people

  • @pcb462
    @pcb462 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ‘Merica

  • @NativeTexMexican
    @NativeTexMexican 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    #landback

  • @donaldpate1863
    @donaldpate1863 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This reminds me of the exact same thing the Australian and US governments, are doing to the last remaining wild horses, on their stolen lands! Right now!

  • @grizztough4091
    @grizztough4091 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It was to starve the American Indian tribes , period

  • @allengrantham6693
    @allengrantham6693 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This ignores teh effect of Bovine Brucellosis. A fatal bacterial disease spread from domestic cattle to the Buffalo. The risk fo infection from wild buffalo to cattle has been an obstacle to bringing back the buffalo, as has been done with the elk, pronghorn antelope, and deer that were also slaughtered.

  • @laara1426
    @laara1426 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    BISON not BUFFALO.
    Look it up.
    Quote science.

  • @nativestacker4185
    @nativestacker4185 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This type of behavior was very ignorant , just like today when a person kills a wolf because it might eat some of their livestock , that is a lazy man's way of taking care of livestock . All of these animals have a purpose and that is why they are here . Especially today with our planet over-populated , full of disease and not enough healthy food to go around . I am from Minnesota and when I was young my mother would give my brother and I a couple of buckets and tell us go get berries for tonight's dinner and we would either go get strawberries , blueberries or whatever we wanted that night . Today you can walk all day and never find any berries to eat , Mass Farming has killed all the wild berries because of over-population and that is just one thing , don't get me started on clean water to drink .

  • @MC-de6tf
    @MC-de6tf 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What they do not say is the US Government actually at one time paid a bounty on on Native American Indian scalps. And all of this country called USA belonged to the Native peoples that was here before the immigrants or invaders came and took almost all of it from the peoples that was here first. But I will be surprised if the editors or monitors of these posts will allow this true statement and comment to remain posted. Peace.

  • @commondominator4413
    @commondominator4413 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey PBS, where exactly are buffalo from? Not North America, thats for sure.

    • @seveglider8406
      @seveglider8406 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What is more important? Where Bisons came from or how despicable Americans nearly wiped them out?

  • @jpallen719
    @jpallen719 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The real history of this land……. I can’t even watch this. It’s so disgusting how men could take rifles and shoot these creatures down by the hundreds of thousands. Men that claim to represent the American ranges.

    • @delvictor7570
      @delvictor7570 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol everything is multitudes better now. Why are you whining?

  • @JohnnyTaxonomy
    @JohnnyTaxonomy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    *Bison

  • @BobQuigley
    @BobQuigley 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Africanns might argue which continent suffered the greatest loss of wildlife. Put all of world's wildlife on one side of a scale and all humans and our farmed animals on the other. Find humans and farmed animals weigh much more. This is a very recent shift and is unsustainable.

  • @vegassid3247
    @vegassid3247 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    These are Bison. Strange they can't call them by the correct species.

  • @nicholaskellogg975
    @nicholaskellogg975 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just wish people would use the word decimated properly. It means to decrease by 1/10th or 10%. This is not the case here... It is unfortunate that even PBS does not know how to use English

    • @codymoe4986
      @codymoe4986 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Isn't the version of decimate, that you are so hung up on, Latin?

  • @whyimsmarterthanyou
    @whyimsmarterthanyou 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Yes, Indians. It's all about you.

    • @gilanafaye
      @gilanafaye 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      it was about them. stripping them of their land, their resources, their culture, their language, their lives.

  • @bahlsdeepe868
    @bahlsdeepe868 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Whoa! This is so interesting to learn about. Thank you for putting this up! Please give us more content like this❤

  • @blogintonblakley2708
    @blogintonblakley2708 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks rich capitalists...

    • @raylopez99
      @raylopez99 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Mostly poor folk trying to get rich.

  • @ahmdeid
    @ahmdeid 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Exactly similar to what Israelis doing with Palestinians.

    • @delvictor7570
      @delvictor7570 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Rooting out abject evil? I suppose you’re right.

  • @GeorgeTaylor-hb9jp
    @GeorgeTaylor-hb9jp 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Does he discuss he fact that disease had an even more deadly impact?

    • @martaholmes4287
      @martaholmes4287 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Which disease? Do you mean Brucellosis that came over with the European cattle?

    • @danielesparza8498
      @danielesparza8498 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      O George.. smh

    • @martaholmes4287
      @martaholmes4287 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm still waiting for an answer.

    • @LaurenceLDN
      @LaurenceLDN 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@martaholmes4287 Where's your evidence?

  • @steliosfreiderikos1765
    @steliosfreiderikos1765 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Only love is life

  • @user-rn5uv1we1o
    @user-rn5uv1we1o หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dame the white man i don't have to say it every body knows