As for the “landbridge” theory, yes some people did cross and settle in the canadas and pacific coastal areas. But some people “time immemorial” ago came from the southern hemisphere, due north! These people used, what is called the nahuatl language/dialect. Their dna/structure chromosomes do differ from the asiatic/canadic/pacific “landbridge” people.
Whilst euro-man was running buck naked looking for a place to stay warm, these people built cities with sewer systems, had gold armor, Knew the concept of “0″ in which all math is based on. Were as what they liked to call themselves “masters of time”. Research *Easter Island*

As for being wasteful, bison are like religious folk “herd mentality”! ie. If you jump of the bridge, so will I! It does not take much, to get these beast frenzy. Whites may have learned this form of hunting from indians and did it to save bullets and time, and leave the rest to rot and blame it on indians, just like the boston tea party!
If the native american was so wasteful, why was there a gold rush? why could you drink water from any creek? why is there still an ancient redwood forest? The bible, songs of Solomon, a verse talks about the great cedars of lebanon! Where are they now?

The American Indian, gave the world 125+ medicinal plants, and not one weapon of mass human destruction.

“If we “mankind” take our filth (morales,ecological practices,wanton destruction)to another planet, and we destroy that planet also, then we are nothing but a bad cancer in the universe! And we should be destroyed.”-Great Basin Indian Elders, circa 1960′s

GEREONIMO!

Native Americans, of course, are not indigenous to the Americas; humans are only indigenous to Africa. Native Americans are descended from Asians who cross the land bridge which existed between Siberia and North America near the end of the last ice age. They evolved for thousands of years in continental isolation and are not considered a genetically, or racially, distinct group. As they crossed the land brige, they entered a hunter’s paradise where animals had no instinctive fear of man and proceeded to exterminate every large mammal on the continent, except for Big Horn sheep. The large mammals we have today, including the buffalo, are descended from animals that also crossed the land bridge.

Prior to the arrival of Europeans, Native America tribes wage incessant, brutal and genocidal warfare among themselves. The purpose of this warfare was to decimate or exterminate rival tribes or to push them off their lands. As a percentage of population, this warefare produce higher casualty rates than the European conflicts of the 20th century.

The explosion of the “horse culture” in the late 1700s lured many tribes onto the plans. For example, the Lakota Sioux migrated from the Great Lakes area onto the plain and arrived in the Black Hills around 1775, about 40 years ahead of the first permanent white settlement. As they migrated west, they attacked the tribes that lay in their path; at one site near the Missouri, they murdered and mutilated 400 men, women, and children.

Indian leaders deplored the slaughter of the buffalo for their hides in the 1800s, but Native Americans participated, probably killing more buffalo for their hides than white buffalo hunters.

It has been documented that the Indians had Buffalo Jumps for over 5,000 years…long before the White Man stepped foot on North America.
Also, Native Indians sometimes burned whole forests to capture game and of course, fires occasionally got completely out of control and destroyed everything in its path, which endangered the survival of the buffalo in North America.
Lastly, many pioneers reported finding skeletons of buffalo and other animals the Indians didn’t need or use, leaving the rest of the carcas to rot and causing a stench of death for a mile around the kills.
Just thought to add that comment for a reality check.
There is no society that has ever lived in harmony and peace…except when later told by ancestors with incomplete and incorrect information.

Among the tribes who did not trade with whites, each animal was completely used, down to the hooves. No part went to waste.

But if you ever get a chance to go to Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump, definitely go. It’s amazing and eerie.

It is also worth noting that while the American Indians COULD use every part of the buffalo doesn’t mean they always did. Dozens of buffalo carcasses were found at kill sites with only their tongues removed.

*The hills are aliiiiiiive with the sound of muuuusic!*

Perhaps that picture spun off the idea for Buffalo Wings? :p