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The battle cry went up.
狩獵口號由此興起
Hokahey! Which means "to charge." and the hunters went in for the kill.
當喊道"Hokahey"意為攻擊，獵手們便一齊蜂擁而上射殺獵物
On horse back, the bow is the weapon of choice.
在馬背上弓箭是最佳武器
And the time it takes to reload a gun,a warrior can ride 300 yards,and fire 20 arrows.
槍支重新裝彈所用的的時間，足夠一名戰士策馬狂奔300碼，張弓發箭20支
Buffalo can run at 35 miles an hour.
野牛奔跑時速高達35英里
Hunts cover hundreds of miles over many days.
狩獵范圍方圓幾百英里，時間長達數日
It can take 15 arrows to kill a buffalo.
射死一頭野牛需要15支箭
White hunters like Frank Mayer use a single cartridge.
而像法蘭克·梅爾這樣的白人獵手只需子彈一發
He aims for the lungs,a clean kill drops a buffalo without disturbing the herd.
對準肺部，干凈利落地放倒一頭牛絲毫不曾驚動牛群
30 Million are killed in a little over a decade.
短短十幾年，3000萬頭野牛死在槍口下
After hunters take the hides,train loads of men arrive to pick their carcasses.
在獵手剝下牛皮之后火車載著工人接踵而至拉走剩下的殘骸
They make buttons from bones and grind down skeletons for fertilizer and porcelain.
他們利用牛骨做扣子，把骨架打磨成粉用作肥料或是制作瓷器
The primary resource keeping Native Americans alive is gone.
原住民靠天吃飯賴地穿衣的日子一去不復返了
Facing starvation, they're forced on to reservations.
面對著滅頂的饑荒，他們被迫遷往保留地
My great-great-grandmother, Grandma Big Eagle was alive when buffalo hunting ended.
我的曾曾祖母，巨鷹太祖在捕獵野牛時代終結時還活著
They weren't just saying good-bye to kind of food stuff.
他們揮別的不僅是賴以生存的食物
They were saying good-bye to a way of being in the world.
同時也是在揮別整個種族的生存方式
I think for them to look back on that was just unspeakably sad.
我想當他們回顧那段歷史時只會是難以言表的悲憤
In 1889, just 85 wild buffalo exist in the whole United States.
1889年，全美僅存85頭野牛
The men who ride the great iron horse are taming the wilderness.
人類駕著鐵騎踐踏著自然，征服著每一寸荒野
The railroad will bring another modern American icon to the Great Plains.
鐵路，把新時代美國的另一標志烙在了大平原上
The last of the great frontier's man.
他們是最后的開拓者
The cowboy.
牛仔
