The Day the Bison Disappeared

The Day the Bison Disappeared. The significant reduction of the bison herds in northwestern North America was devastating for the Plains indigenous communities which had drawn their strength from this animal for thousands of years. The threat of starvation was only their most immediate problem: Canada’s colonization of the territory, made possible by the disappearance of the bison, utterly transformed the world for the people living in or moving to Canada’s Prairie West.