Blackfeet Culture/Buffalo Hunting
Blackfeet Cultureculture is not genetically inherited, it is shared, learned, and dynamic- never static/Buffalo Hunting is about subsistencea method whereby humans are able to continue their existence; condition of being able to stay alive; practices that maintain survival practices of buffalo hunting. Buffalo hunting by the Blackfeet is explored in an article by Eric Powell in Archaeology Magazine. Blackfeet are indigenous or tribal peoples who now live in Montana. Discovery of cairns in western Montana have led archaeologists to believe they have found more clues about the Blackfeet culture and their style of buffalo hunting.
Buffalo hunting was a primary subsistence practice of many indigenous peoples in the culture regiona culture region, or culture area (or Global Village) is an area where common cultural components, traits, or characteristics have developed over time, and are shared among various societies, due to a variety of causal factors such as immigration, war, colonialism, forced acculturation, technology and travel advances, etc. designated as the Anglo American Global Villagea place in the world where your ancestor may have lived,  the world is divided into cultural areas, each area designated as a global village, see the Global Villages Map.. Scholars of the past, and some contemporary environmentalists, have often promoted the idea that all Native Americans or even most indigenous peoples across the globe, have practiced only sustainable subsistence methods. One might wonder how sustainable and environmentally friendly driving hundreds of buffalo off a cliff can be? The article below explores this practice and its implications.
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/155-1411/letter-from/2587-letter-from-montana-buffalo-jumps
A modern version of buffalo hunting, shown in this short clip from Dances With Wolves, with an added depiction of the Native-America-Lakot Buffalo Hunt, gives us an idea of how such a hunt, in the Blackfeet culture, may have worked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz5b2sHldNQ
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