“The buffalo were taking care of ... century of environmental challenges and Native American over-hunting. The spread of horses on the Great Plains in 1680 onward gave tribes a new, highly ...

The world of Plains Indians and of other American ... It is unlikely that the American buffalo will regain its once great herds. It has become evident that the population of the bison has ...

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 ...

its importance to the Native Americans and the Great Plains landscape, its impending extinction and the struggles to save the magnificent mammals. By the late 1880s, the buffalo teeters on ...

The deep, undisturbed layers of animal bones (largely American Bison ... Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is located in southern Alberta, Canada, where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains meet the Great ...

Almira Buffalo Bone ... collections of a Native American art form that is hardly known at all: the quilt. Eighty-eight quilts—stitched by women from the Northern Plains tribes from the 1940s ...

When NFL fans think of the Buffalo club, the immediate thought ... providing bison meat for railroad workers in the Great Plains. Cody began as a cattle herder before moving on to work as a ...