This animal represents the lifes blood of their people. Long before any
European reintroduced the horse. firearms and the concept of trading for
furs the American Plains Indians had built their lives and culture around
this magnificent beast. It was warmth, shelter, food for the long winter
and a cause for celebration. It provided a means of passage to manhood,
an intertribal commodity of trade and sinew, medicanal products and bone
for the production of tools. The American Buffalo was the Wal-Mart of its
time.
all life is considered sacred to the titunwan (dwellers of the prairie). the buffalo were considered greatly important because they are considered close relatives and provided much food and tools (-all parts of buffalo were used). also, their is much respect for their strong nature
The buffalo
buffalo was a very good resource for the Indians on the great plains, the buffalo supplied shelter, food, and clothing.
Buffalo meat was the Great Plains Indians food.
The two most important things to the Plains Indians were Buffalo and earth lodges
Buffalo was their was of life. Plains indians used and ate everything on the buffalo. The bones uses as tools, fur for clothing and meat for food. When the buffalo started to decimate so did the indians.
they traveled with it
buffalo
The Plains Indians had the buffalo. For most of the Eastern Indians the deer was the key animal. For the Inuit it was the seal and the caribou.
Indians plains the buffalo was very valuable to the plains Indians .the buffalo meat was dried and mixed with marrow and fruit to become a food that they would keep for long periods of time .The Indians also used ropes,shield s,and clothing . Their tepees were also made from the buffalo hide . Aparfeche was used by the Plains INDIANS TO CARRY THEIR POISSESSIOS. aND THAT WAS ALSO MADE OF BUFFALO HIDE .THE ARTISTS OF THE plains USED BUFFALO HIDES FOR THEIR ARTWORK.
bison or buffalo what the indians hunted
buffalo dung
The Plains Indians were nomads. They were good hunters. Their main food was the American Buffalo.