DCHP-2
buffalo jump Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a place where Plains Indians slaughtered buffalo by stampeding them over a precipice.
See also: jump ((n.)) (def. 1) jumping pound piskun pound ((n.)) (def. 2)
- 1956 Places where these buffalo jumps and pounds once were are still to be found on the prairies; there are thick beds of bones from the hundreds of animals that were killed there.
- 1964 Recently recovered at the widely-known Old Woman's Buffalo Jump near Cayley [Alta] was a blunt stone axe. . . .
- 1956 Places where these buffalo jumps and pounds once were are still to be found on the prairies; there are thick beds of bones from the hundreds of animals that were killed there.