The North American ... native people, who were hunted and slaughtered in the exuberance following the mid-19th-century gold rush. Their land was eventually claimed by timber companies. Now the ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldrush-value-land/ For millennia a diverse population of Native American tribes thrived on the abundant lands ...

At least 28 tribes might be called Plains Indians ... which included antelope and smaller game. North American Indians shared their world with two types of buffalo (plains and wood), eight ...