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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Chapter 1: The Buffalo Jump
    1. Communal Buffalo Hunting
    2. Not Just Any Cliff
    3. The Site
    4. The Cliff
    5. How Long Have Buffalo Jumped?
    6. Blood on the Rocks: The Story of Head Smashed-In
  6. Chapter 2: The Buffalo
    1. Is it Bison or Buffalo?
    2. In Numbers, Numberless
    3. Tricks of the Trade
    4. The Fats of Life
  7. Chapter 3: A Year in the Life
    1. Calves
    2. Mothers
    3. Fathers
    4. The Big Picture
    5. Science and the Historic Record
    6. The Seasonal Round
    7. The Season of Buffalo Jumping
  8. Chapter 4: The Killing Fields
    1. Finding Bison
    2. Drive Lanes
    3. Points in Time
    4. Ancient Knowledge
    5. Back to the Drive Lanes
    6. Deadmen
    7. In Small Things Forgotten
  9. Chapter 5: Rounding Up
    1. The Spirit Sings
    2. The Nose of the Buffalo
    3. Fire this Time
    4. Luring the Buffalo
    5. Buffalo Runners
    6. Lost Calves
    7. Billy’s Stories
    8. The End of the Drive
    9. Of Illusions, Pickup Trucks, and Curves in the Road
  10. Chapter 6: The Great Kill
    1. Leap of Faith
    2. Overkill
    3. Drop of Death
    4. Bones on Fire
    5. Let the Butchering Begin
    6. Bison Hide as Insulator
    7. Back to the Assembly Line
  11. Chapter 7: Cooking Up The Spoils
    1. The Processing Site
    2. Day Fades to Night
    3. Dried Goods
    4. Grease is the Word
    5. High Plains Cooking
    6. Hazel Gets Slimed
    7. Buffalo Chips
    8. Hot Rocks
    9. Time for a Roast
    10. Where Are the Skulls?
    11. Packing Up, Among the Bears
  12. Chapter 8: Going Home
    1. Buffalo Hides
    2. Pemmican
    3. Snow Falling on Cottonwoods
  13. Chapter 9: The End of the Buffalo Hunt
    1. The Skin of the Animal
    2. The Last of the Buffalo Jumps
    3. Rivers of Bones
    4. Final Abandonment of Head-Smashed-In
  14. Chapter 10: The Past Becomes The Present
    1. Beginnings
    2. A Beer-Soaked Bar Napkin
    3. Cranes on the Cliff
    4. A Rubber Cliff
    5. And a Rubber Dig
    6. The Blackfoot Get Involved
    7. Meeting with the Piikani
    8. Joe Crowshoe
    9. A Painted Skull
    10. Where Are the Blood?
    11. Hollywood North
    12. Opening and Aftermath
    13. Of Time and Tradition
  15. Epilogue: Just A Simple Stone
    1. Last Summer
    2. A Thousand Years Ago
    3. Three Months Later
    4. Three Days Later
  16. Sources to Notes
  17. References Cited
  18. Index

Imagining Head-Smashed-In

Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains

Jack W. Brink

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