>>1656796>Before Europeans brought the horse to the New World, Native Americans in the Great Plains hunted bison from foot. Their technique was ingenious: by making a fire or creating a ruckus near a herd of bison, they stampeded the skittish animals toward a bluff. The Indians lined the route to the bison "jump with fallen trees or thicket and waved robes to shoo the beasts toward their destination. If the hunters dared to risk a general conflagration, they set more fires to direct the herd. [Introduction]>The nomads set their fires in the spring, at a time when the soil and subsurface plant materials were wet or frozen. The cold and damp prevented a general conflagration. Spring burning accelerated the arrival of forage that was especially attractive to grazing animals that had spent the winter searching for food. As the explorer Edwin James wrote in 1820, the plains nomads "like the Mongalls in the grassy deserts of Asia, set fire to the plains in order to attract herbivorous animals by the growth of tender and nutritious herbage which springs up soon after the burning." In the weeks after the appearance of the spring grasses, the nomads hunted burned-over areas attentively. [page 72]Andrew C. Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison (New York: Cambridge, 2000)
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