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The Buffalo Hunters Return to Red River - Coggle Diagram
The Buffalo Hunters Return to Red River
Who: The article is about the Metis Buffalo hunters returning to Red River written by: Beatrix Chronos a reporter
Thousand of Metis men, women and children take part
What: It's about the importance of the Buffalo hunt, the closeness of the community of Red River and the struggles they are facing.
Everyone celebrates, feast and dance
Red River Jig
Where: The Red River settlement, river lots that stretch along the riverbank, only reached by dogsled in the winter and canoe or York boat in the summer.
Where they farmed for generations
very close! can reach 8 families in 20 min walk along the river bank
Gives access to the river for transportation and drinking water for them and animals
Struggles
buffalo are getting scarce
failed crops due to dry weather
swarms of grasshoppers effecting crops
Surveyors from Canada are plotting land for settlers from Canada
Why: The article was written to inform people about the importance of the hunt
Their way of life
The Fur Trade
To trade pemmican with HBC
Women and children prep the meat
raising crops and livestock
To provide foe their families
When: August 25, 1869
buffalo hunt occurs every year