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Hey you❕ Yes, you 🫵 Do YOU live in an eastern, Midwest, or southern state? If so, your ancestors robbed you of the ability to see wild elk and bison herds in your neighborhood and you may be entitled to jack fucking shit loser 🤣
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Anonymous 1w

Good news! Elk reintroduction efforts in the southern Appalachians have been going well. Also! If you live in the Gainesville FL area go to Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park they have a small bison herd

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Anonymous 1w

All the Saint Louis fellas know about lone elk park where we also have small herds of bison and elk! (Nothing compared to their original numbers but hey it’s something!)

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Anonymous 1w

girl my ancestors ain’t do shit they ain’t ask to be here

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Anonymous 1w

Digging up lewis and clark and teddy roosevelt and making them get their asses back to work because goddammit i was robbed

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Anonymous 1w

You clearly don’t understand the natural width of the Bison Belt so you don’t get to have an opinion on this topic

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Anonymous 1w

My ancestors were too busy getting invaded by Russia twice, then Sweden, then Russia again, then France, then Germany, then Poland, then Russia again, then Germany again, then Russia a 5th time.

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Anonymous 1w

y’all should see what they did to the nations of people living here

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Small bison populations were present in the western portions of many east coast states due to the presence of anthropogenic piedmont grasslands. The largest populations were on the Great Plains but those weren’t the only places bison were found

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

wait this is awesome

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

my favorite bison is the prehistoric Bison patrons that also lived between Snake River Idaho Nevada all the way to southern California

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

*bison latifrons

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Random bison in California thing, there’s a large non-native bison population on Catalina island that were brought there for filming a movie back in the 20s.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

It is pretty awesome yeah, I took a state into northern PA as a kid and we saw an elk wandering around the town we stopped at for lunch. Didn’t see any in the state park dedicated for them lol I wanna see wild populations come back though. Like imagine the majesty of seeing a deer in a field, but then it’s an elk like twice the size

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

There were large populations of bison in the great valleys of Virginia and Tennessee. Their migrations were pretty well documented. There’s some speculation of populations on the Maryland/pa side of that valley but most credible sightings in PA were in western counties.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Some of the early European engravings of coastal Algonquin peoples in Virginia and North Carolina included bison hide clothing

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Anonymous replying to -> _orangutan 1w

I’m watching a video about how an orangutan committed premeditated murder rn. Coincidence you’re replying this very moment? I think NOT Also you have a better chance of convincing white people of past atrocities with cute animals than with colored people

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Anonymous replying to -> _orangutan 1w

We know bro they helped each other grow corn n shit and then sat down at a bigass table every year to have a peaceful thanksgiving duh 🙄

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w
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Anonymous replying to -> _orangutan 1w

ts is obvious if you’ve seen the planet of the apes

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

Pure speculation, but I imagine they used rivers like the James/roanoke/new to trade these from the great valley down into the coastal plains

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

My professor showed us these pictures in an Indigenous Chesapeake class and that is what he said likely happened

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

HELL YEAH STL ON TOP

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 1w

💯‼️

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

WE’RE GOING BACK IN TIME TO THE FIRST THANKSGIVING TO GET TURKEY OFF THE MENU

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