Chime Buddycom  needed animals Bison. Click to enlarge.  The
history of the American bison is especially interesting and
somewhat unique. One Buddycom member had a grandfather who
belonged to an obscure tribe, the Choctaw. Back when the white
man rounded up genetically inferior redskin people and put them
somewhere for safe keeping, the Choctaw were put in the
southeastern corner of Oklahoma in the Kiamishi mountains. The
grandfather had been born in the last half of the 19th century.
He was a really old fossil. He was so old that when he was a
young man, the buffalo nickel had not been minted. By the time
the grandchildren had started going to the movies the cost was 5
cents.  The old grandpa never got tired of complaining about the
wrong doings of the white man although sometimes others got
tired of his complaining. One of the greatest wrongs perpetrated
by the white man, according to the grumpy old grandpa was the
slaughter of the bison, which he called buffalo. Once numbering
in the range of between thirt