Just like they raised bison.
And badgers.
They raised badgers as pets.
They even had Badger Shows to select the prettiest badger.
You should have seen the talent contest.
Badgers playing ukuleles and harmonicas. Badgers dancing ballet. A badger doing ventriloquism with a Hillary dummy.
“And now, I shall drink a glass of water while Wood Head Hillary sings Stairway To Heaven.”
OK. I made that last part up.
Wood Head Hillary actually sang Taking Care Of Business.
They would have raised woolly mammoths but they up and died off leaving the ‘nates barefoot and bereft, totally dependent on badges and turkeys for domesticated food and show animals.
Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor’d mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;
His soul, proud science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk, or milky way;
Yet simple nature to his hope has giv’n,
Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heav’n;
Some safer world in depth of woods embrac’d,
Some happier island in the wat’ry waste,
Where slaves once more their native land behold,
No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold.
To be, contents his natural desire,
He asks no angel’s wing, no seraph’s fire;
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company. ...” - Alex Pope, 1734