美国野牛镍币2.pptVIP

Everyone knows, today,the American coins figures of the US government mostly famous presidents,such as this picture. But today I want to say another coins-----the Buffalo Nickel, a kind of coin,which was produced from 1913 to 1938. The Buffalo Nickel was to honor a pair of conneted tragedies from the settlement of the American frontier ----the destruction of the buffalo herds and the American Indians. American buffalo Buffalo has a 5000 years history of the species and is the unique part of the landscape in American.In the 19 century, the bison(野牛) began to be slaughtered(杀戮). In early 20th century ,the number of bison reduced to just hundreds of head,make the United States govern -ment and some nonprofit organization began to protect. Today,the buffalo population rise to about 450,000. American Indians Indians were also called native American.The indians were the original inhabitants （居民）of Latin America. They and Asians have some of the same cultural features,such as in the fire, and dog training an so on. Because of mass slaughter Near extinction 濒临灭绝 ! To honor these tragedies,famed artist James Earle Fraser went