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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RaceBannon, post: 1633309, member: 25357&quot;]1913 was one hundred years ago.&nbsp; It was also the first year the Buffalo nickel was minted.&nbsp; You have to put yourself in the mindset of the people of that era.&nbsp; The notion of Political Correctness wasn&#039;t even on their radar.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The parents of the Americans who minted the Buff, had fought a brutal, take no prisoners, fight to the death, war against the native americans.&nbsp; There was brutality beyond imagining on both sides.&nbsp; Read &quot;Empire of the Summer Moon&quot;.&nbsp; Yet the descendants of European settlers, who became Americans, recognized the nobility and untainted wildness of their former enemy.&nbsp; And saw fit to commemorate that noble spirit with the image of a native american warrior.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, these same people slaughtered the American Bison, colloquially known as the Buffalo, to the brink of extinction.&nbsp; Again, to them the wilderness was something to be tamed,&nbsp; an unlimited resource.&nbsp; When the settlers first made their way out west to California for the gold rush in 1849, there were millions upon millions of Buffalo on the great plains.&nbsp; Their slaughter is one of the great tragedies of man against nature.&nbsp; But again, in the mindset of the people of that era, the buffalo was just another resource to be exploited.</p><p><br /></p><p>1913 was on the tail end of the era of the wild west.&nbsp; People recongized that with the advent of the industrial age, things had changed in this country forever.&nbsp; In my view the Buffalo Nickel was struck as an homage to a way of life that had passed into history, but was commemorative to two indelibly American Icons.&nbsp; I&#039;m glad they chose the design.&nbsp; It&#039;s beautiful.&nbsp; I only wish the mint would be as creative and artistic nowadays with the designs on our circulating coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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