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A Blackfeet band marked 1854 as "the year when we ate dogs." By the end of the 1850s,
the bison had been driven from all but the interior
portion of the Plains, where, by the mid-1860s, an estimated 12 million to
15 million of them still lived
the bison had been driven from all but the interior
portion of the Plains, where, by the mid-1860s, an estimated 12 million to
15 million of them still lived
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A Blackfeet band marked 1854
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as "the year when we ate dogs."
00:00:10.067 --> 00:00:14.007
By the end of the 1850s,
the bison had been driven
00:00:14.007 --> 00:00:17.009
from all but the interior
portion of the Plains,
00:00:17.009 --> 00:00:20.967
where, by the mid-1860s,
00:00:20.967 --> 00:00:26.967
an estimated 12 million to
15 million of them still lived.
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Movie Summary
A journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent's most iconic landscapes, tracing the mammal's evolution.