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The buffalo were their food source - so they followed the buffalo heards when they migrated. They also used their skins for clothing, their bones for tools.

Buffalo were important for the natives because they gave them meat,bones,skin.

The buffalo is like the Native's lifeline. Without them the Natives cannot survive. They used the buffalo for all kinds of things.

Meat: Roasted and boiled for food.

Hides: Used for clothing and other accessories.

Muscles: thread, bowstrings

Bones: weapons and tools

Horns: Utensils and toys

Hair: rope

Beard: decoration

Tail: whips

Brain: Used for soften the skin.

Hoofs: Boiled for glue.

Fat: candles and soap

Dung: fuel.

Teeth: necklaces

Stomach and Bladders: containers

Skull: ceremony masks.

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