The general Lakota term for buffalo is pte (p-tay), which also signifies a buffalo cow. A buffalo bull is tatanka or tabloka.
Depends on who you are what it means. To Native Americans plains tribes a white buffalo was a sacred animal. As it was tribes like the Dakota Sioux used the buffalo for food, clothing, worship, and anything else they could glean from the buffalo.
The Sioux depend on Buffalo for shelter, food, and clothes. They use buffalo hide (skin) to make their teepees and clothes
the Sioux lived in teepes made of buffalo skin.
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The buffalo was a main food source and all parts of the animal was used. Nothing was wasted. The Sioux also worshiped the buffalo and had celebrated it.
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they hunted buffalo
the Sioux Indians wonen robes and buffalo skin over there bodies
A buffalo cow = p'teA young male buffalo = p'taA buffalo bull = tatankaAn old buffalo = tagu'The word tatanka literally means "big hump" and it could be applied to any animal with its head carried lower than its spine, such as the moose and the bear.
White Buffalo Calf Woman
The homes of the Sioux tribe were made out of buffalo hides.
The sioux hunted buffalo on horseback.