⭐ DAILY SIGNAL #149 - Extinction of the Bison

🗓 Date

24^th of April 2026

🎬 Today’s Clip

THE BISONS ALMOST WENT EXTINCT BECAUSE OF THIS

Watch the clip:
https://youtube.com/shorts/u-F3bPx1hMk

💬 Quote of the Day

“They were doing it in order to diminish survival of the native American people”
— Forrest Galante

🤔 Reflection Question

What happened to lead to the massive bison bone pile picture?
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The iconic 1892 photograph of a mountain of bison skulls at the Michigan Carbon Works was the culmination of a decade-long bone gold rush that followed the near-total extermination of the species. Between 1870 and 1890, the bison population was decimated from millions to just a few hundred individuals, largely due to a deliberate U.S. military strategy to force Native American tribes onto reservations by destroying their primary food and cultural resource. While hunters initially sought only the hides for industrial leather, the remaining sun-bleached skeletons became a lucrative secondary market, bone pickers gathered millions of pounds of remains from the Great Plains to be shipped via the transcontinental railroad to Eastern factories. These bones were processed into phosphorous fertilizer, bone char used for bleaching sugar, and fine bone china, with the pile in the photo representing an estimated 100,000 animals alone. This era of hyper-exploitation turned the prairie into a graveyard, transforming a foundational ecosystem player into a mere industrial raw material before the first modern conservation laws were finally enacted to save the species from total extinction.

🎧 Source

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #1927 – Forrest Galante

Watch the full episode:
https://youtu.be/d8XDniI08WY

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