The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood ... believed the buffalo were a gift from their god. In a Blackfoot hunting story, Old Man creates mankind out of clay blowing life into the ...

It became obvious that Indians and whites viewed the buffalo from differing points of view. Plains Indians had learned to hunt the buffalo skillfully with a bow and arrow, while the white ...

Plains Indians had limited contact with the white ... the Assiniboines and the Blackfoot lived largely nomadic lives, hunting the vast buffalo herds across the land. By the mid-1800s, times ...

were home to thousands of Plains Indians, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, Lakota, and others. They adopted the horse for hunting buffalo, the main source of their material culture and food.