BISON ECONOMY: TIMELINE

11, 700 years ago

  • Oldest known archaeological evidence of people in southern Alberta ("Paleo-Indians")

    • 10, 000 years ago

  • Earliest known bison drive, in present-day Texas

    • 1000 BCE

  • Bow and arrow appears on the Great Plains

    • 1700s

  • Europeans first appear in southern Alberta

    • 1730s

  • Horses become widespread and invaluable to Native people

    • 1750-1850

  • "Golden Age" of aboriginal life on the prairies

    • 1754

  • Anthony Henday leads expedition into the Western interior

    • 1787

  • David Thompson explores the Bow River

    • 1792

  • Peter Fidler explores the site of present-day Calgary

    • 1870s-1880s

  • Bison are exterminated on the prairies