To Tom McDonald, chairman of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, buffalo hunting by tribes outside Yellowstone National Park is often misunderstood.
It is time for a cease-fire in the so-called buffalo hunts that take place on the western and northern edges of Yellowstone National Park. Winter came early and hard and we witnessed one of the largest migrations into Montana long before Yellowstone was established. No less than 1,175 buffalo were killed — the majority of them were slaughtered in the killing fields of Beattie Gulch in the Gardiner Basin — mostly by tribal hunters.
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