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1、Five Famous Symbols of American Culture,The Buffalo Nickel,04121012,张顺吉,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.,
2、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.,Nextly,we first introduce,buffalo and American Indians,The Buffalo,American buffalo,Buffalo has a 5000 years history of the specie
3、s and is the unique part of the landscape in American.In the 19 century, the bison(野牛) began to be slaughtered(杀戮).,American buffalo,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
4、,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.,But unfortunately,Indians w
5、ere killed.,Because of mass slaughter Near extinction 濒临灭绝 !,To honor these tragedies,famed artist James Earle Fraser went aganist tradition by using three actual American Indians as models for his creation,For the buffalo on the other sider ,since buffalo no longer wandered about the great grasslan
6、ds,Fraser was to sketch（素描）an aging buffalo from Near York Citys Central Park Zoo. Two years later,in1915, this animal was sold for $100 and killed for meat ,a hide and a wall decoration made from its horns,The Buffalo Nickel was produced.It attribute to the buffalo and the native American people who were killed and displaced to make room for European expansion. In order to remind American citizens to protect the environment,the government issued this buffalo nickel.,Thank you,