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.
Buffalo
They were valuable and used them for everything.
The native Americans needed to have move able houses so that they can fallow the buffalo every time they migrated, because they hunted buffalo.
The plains Indians virtually had to change their way of life after the buffalo became scarce. Other Indians did not live where buffalo were.
i believe it was the sharp decline in the bison(buffalo) population.
The Plains depended on the buffalo.
buffalo, horse
Buffalo
Buffalo supplied food, clothing and housing.
The Native Americans of the "Plains" made "Tepees, Whips, Clothes, and other items such as tools and Drums" [ETC]
Many European Americans came to the Great Plains and killed the buffalo. The Native Americans also hunted the buffalo for their meat and skin.
Buffalo! Buffalo was their source for everything; Food, clothes, shelter, etc.
for clothing and blankets
They were valuable and used them for everything.
The native Americans needed to have move able houses so that they can fallow the buffalo every time they migrated, because they hunted buffalo.
The Great Plains in central North America.
The plains Indians virtually had to change their way of life after the buffalo became scarce. Other Indians did not live where buffalo were.