The American bison's habitat extended all the way to the Atlantic Ocean and they lived in every state to the east of the Mississippi, except for Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. While they weren't domesticated, Dale Lott details that Native Americans terraformed to enable their cultivation.
"The openings in the woods where they grazed owed their existence to active management by Native Americans. These meadows were closely akin to the pastures European settlers would create for their cattle, except that the Indians used fires rather than axes".
Lott, Dale F.. American Bison. Berkeley, US: University of California Press, 2002. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 26 April 2016.
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