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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a place where Plains Indians slaughtered buffalo by stampeding them over a precipice.

See: jump ((n.))(def. 1),jumping pound,piskun,pound ((n.))(def. 2)

Quotations

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. . . .