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 ...

The world of Plains Indians ... buffalo. They're defending their lands. I mean anyone would defend their lands, their homelands. It is unlikely that the American buffalo will regain its once great ...

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 ...

Millions of buffalo, or American bison, once roamed North America from Canada down to Mexico. They were an integral part of Native American societies that lived on the Great Plains providing food ...

According to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, bison once roamed the Great Plains in the millions ... the organization works with Native Buffalo ranchers in ...