The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood, Sarcee, Peigan and Blackfoot among others - with almost everything they needed. Hides were dressed and made into clothing and stretched onto poles ...

A Paleo - Indian Bison Kill Some 8,500 years ago a group of hunters on the Great Plains stampeded a herd of buffaloes into a gulch and butchered them. The bones of the animals reveal the event in ...

Plains Indians had learned to hunt the buffalo skillfully ... What is the difference between a buffalo and a bison? Most people think that there is no difference between a buffalo and bison ...

Jeff Martin likes to think of the Great Plains as the “bison basket.” There are approximately 400,000 bison across North ...

DESCRIPTION: Slightly smaller in size than other subspecies of the often 12.5-foot long, 6.5-foot tall American bison, the plains bison has a long, shaggy, dark-brown coat; short, backward-arching ...

His dissertation research focused on the early contact period and the development of Plains Indian equestrianism. Other research foci include Paleoindian studies, early European exploration and ...