30 Haunting Photos That Reveal How The American Bison Was Nearly Hunted To Extinction

Horrors on Instagram: "In the late 1800s, the U.S. government encouraged the mass slaughter of bison—not just for profit, but as a deliberate strategy to wipe out the primary food source of many Native American tribes. Entire herds were gunned down and left to rot, with only their hides or bones collected. It wasn’t hunting. It was eradication. One haunting photo from the era shows a man proudly standing in front of a mountain of bison skulls. The pile towers over him, a silent monument to the s