Madison Buffalo Jump State Park
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Madison Buffalo Jump State Park
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| location | Gallatin County in Montana (USA) | |
| surface | 258 ha | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 48 ' N , 111 ° 28' W | |
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| Setup date | 1966 | |
| administration | Montana Dept. of Fish, Wildlife and Parks | |
The Madison Buffalo Jump State Park is a historic hunting area with a plateau of the Madison Plateau and steep cliffs, which several Indian tribes have used for bison hunting for over 2000 years. It is located 30 km west of Bozeman in Gallatin County of the US state of Montana and is on the I-90 exit Logan reached. The 258 acre state park is located at an elevation of 4,482 ft on the valley edge of the Madison River , which joins the Jefferson River and the Gallatin River to form the Missouri River at Three Forks in the Missouri Headwaters State Park 10 km north . Madison Buffalo Jump State Park's infrastructure includes a visitor pavilion with information boards, picnic areas, and hiking trails.
Over the centuries, the hunting area has been used by various tribes including the Shoshone, Nez Percé , Bannock , Salish, Blackfeet, Gros Ventre , Assiniboine , Cree, Crow, Cheyenne, Arapaho , Dakota, Lakota and Hidatsa . During the bison hunt on a Buffalo Jump, a herd of bison was purposefully driven over a plateau towards a steeply sloping cliff and fell down due to the panic at the Stampede . The animals, which did not die in the meter-deep fall, were weakened by their injuries and could be killed by the waiting hunters. The Madison Buffalo Jump was hunted from 500 years before our era until the 18th century. On the one hand, other hunting strategies were now possible through the use of horses, on the other hand, large populations were severely decimated by white settlers. The Indian tribes, who used almost all parts of the hunted bison, were largely deprived of their traditional livelihood.
There have been no major changes in this landscape since the end of the hunt, so that there are still many bison bones and the stone circles for the tipis of a former Indian village have been found. On the plateau are still the boulders that marked the corridor for bison hunt and behind which additional drivers could hide.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://visitmt.com/categories/moreinfo.asp?IDRRecordID=3939&SiteID=1
