The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood, Sarcee, Peigan and Blackfoot among others - with almost everything they needed. Hides were dressed and made into clothing and stretched onto poles ...

By 1900, the American buffalo teetered on the brink of disappearing forever, and Native people of the Plains entered one ... tribes at the destruction of the great herds, while crusading ...

Plains Indians had limited ... millions of plains buffalo in Canada and the United States were killed for sport, profit and American military strategy. The great beast, which had sustained prairie ...