Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-11-16 | Page 7 | Blackfeet Plan Buffalo Meat Dinners Again

Plan Buffalo Meat Dinners Again Animals From Yellowstone Park to Be Killed and Sent to In Indians Indians Indians In- In Memories of the days days- when the west belonged to the Indians and I bison was the main source of the food supply will be recalled by the Indians on the reservation In Montana this winter A. A C. C Cooley director of the extension and industry industry industry indus indus- try division of the bureau bur au of Indian I affairs reported Monday For the first time in many years the will bo be given buffalo buffalomeat buffalomeat meat to prepare for tor their meals as they did In the days ds's gone by Mr Cooley said There are many of the tho older Indians in the tribe who can vividly remember back to the time when their people staged big buffalo hunts Through the cooperation of the national parks service head of buffalo from Yellowstone park have been obtained for the tho this winter Mr Cooley said Arrangements Arrangements Arrange Arrange- ments meats for the deal were made recently recent recent- ly by W. W S. S Murdock agriculture extension extension ex ex- tension agent and Forest B R. R Stone superintendent of the Blackfoot res The buffalo will be slaughtered and frozen and sent to the reservation reservation reservation reserva reserva- tion In lots of twenty throughout the winter viator Mr Cooley said This supply of ot meat is e. e expected to do much to toward toward toward to- to ward warding off hunger among the Indians who have been suffering due to the drouth