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Native Americans: The Importance of the Buffalo
Cultural uses and Importances Religious Importances: - Buffalo Dances - They prayed for plentiful buffalo hunts and healthy years. Culture: -The plains Native Americans migrated to follow the buffalo wherever they went. -The main hunting event was the buffalo hunt. Everyday Uses: Uses of the buffalo: Horns: Cups, Spoons, Ladles, and Powder horn Food: Tongue was considered best part Rest of meat was preserved as jerky. Rawhide: Headdresses, Medicine bags, Bases of shields, Drum skins, andLance cases Hooves: Raw materials for glue Bones: Used to make arrowheads, and Knives Sinew: Bow Strings
What Happened to The Buffalo? When gold was discovered in California, settlers came pouring out of the west. To improve the traveling conditions, the U. S. government decided to build a railroad across all of the United States. This split the great buffalo herd into the northern and southern herds.To provide food for the workers, hired workers such as Buffalo Bill killed thousands of buffalo. Some were slaughtered for their hides, and even just for the fun of killing them. By 1878, the southern buffalo herd was almost gone and the northern herd was gone by 1883. The native americans were starving and many of them died.
