This animal was practically exterminated within a few years by the professional buffalo hunters of the early pioneer days. who slaughtered these animals by the millions for their skins. Mr. President. at the time when the white men entered North Dakota there were hundreds of thousands of buffalo there. Today there are less than 200 in the entire State. I read further: There came a time when the advancing tide of immigration overtook and engulfed the American Indian and surrounded him on all sides. The removal policy was no longer practicable. There was no place where the Indian might go.
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