Beyond the technology, the United States government also encouraged the slaughter of the buffalo as a strategy to conquer the American plains Indians ... take part in the hunt.

North American Indians shared their world with two types ... Plains Indians had learned to hunt the buffalo skillfully with a bow and arrow, while the white professional hunter hired to supply ...

but it was the sixteenth century arrival of Europeans and their horses and firearms that accelerated the market hunt and thrust the American buffalo into the sights of a global economy.

A thousand years after the West Coast culture took shape, around 6,000 BC, a plains culture formed around the buffalo. The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood, Sarcee, Peigan and ...

George Catlin was an American artist known for his paintings of Native American culture during the early 19th ... These works captured buffalo hunts, ceremonies, and daily life. In 1838, the artist ...