Buffalo slaughter protects only about 3,000 cattle on wildlife-designated public land

Evidence

Basically, all this buffalo killing is in honor of 3,000 or so cows and their babies, who continue to graze on public land, land actually designated first for wildlife and only secondly for livestock. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 766

Categorization

• QUESTION: LaDuke cites land ‘designated first for wildlife’; worth verifying the current legal lease status of these Montana grazing allotments.
• XREF: connects to: The 1887 General Allotment Act cut reservation lands by two-thirds — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 724; Montana slaughtered over 2,500 Yellowstone buffalo in three years — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 710; Conservation parks are too small for buffalo viability — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 796 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Conservation parks are too small for buffalo viability #qualifies (0.75) — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 796
• U.S. forces slaughtered buffalo deliberately to starve Native peoples into submission #complicates (0.70) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1195