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“didn’t. White Bull believed the white man purposely slaughtered the buffalo to get rid of the Indians. But while the whites were certainly killing buffalo, they did it for sport, meat, and to line their pockets, not as some grand scheme to force the Indians onto reservations. And the Plains tribes contributed to their own hardships by continuing to harvest buffalo beyond their own needs so as to have robes for trade. A Fort Benton fur trader was”
― Mark Lee Gardner, The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation