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The bison population declined drastically from ~40 million in 1830 to only 395,000 by 1880. The main reasons were commercial hunting for bison hides and meat not an explicit government policy to subjugate Native Americans. The US government did little to regulate the slaughter. https://www.insidescience.org/news/bison-slaughter%E2%80%99s-destructive-legacy-native-americans
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