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- Buffalo meat was central to their diets
- the skins were used on tepees, their portable shelters
- hides used for: clothing, shoes, and blankets
- buffalo chips (dried manure) was burned for fuel
- bones and horns were used as tools and bowls
- THEY USED EVERY PART OF THE BUFFALO AND IT WAS THEIR MOST IMPORTANT ASSET
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agothe buffalo was was the cycle of life to the Indians. It was considered majestic. Also spiritual. It was food, clothing, blankets, material for tents. They depended on it for survival and hide for clothing, muscle for meat, intestine and bone for weapons and bowls, utensils etc.
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∙ 11y agothey were a food source and they used their skin for clothes
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The socioeconomic and religious life of the Plains tribes revolved around?
the buffalo
What animals were critical to the life of the native Americans on the plains?
Buffalo
What did the natives do when the railroads were finished?
By the time the railroad was complete the Native Americans were fighting for their lives. After Hays won the 1870 election he assigned General Sherman to take care of ridding the plains of the tribes living there. Sherman used total war against the tribes by killing the buffalo. The buffalo was the main source for food. The plains tribes used all of the animal and it was a religious symbol as well. Trains would stop and people would shoot buffalo herds from train windows. The result was the movement of the tribes onto reservations. They were starving to death and with the death of Sitting Bull a way of life was lost.
The final blow to Native American tribal life on the Plains was?
The extermination of the buffalo
How did the loss of buffalo affect native Americans?
The plains Indians virtually had to change their way of life after the buffalo became scarce. Other Indians did not live where buffalo were.
The socioeconomic and religious life of the Plains tribes was revolved around what?
the buffalo.
The socioeconomic and religious life of the Plains tribes revolved around?
the buffalo
Which was not central to life and culture of the plains Indians in the late 1800s?
buffalo
How did destruction of the buffalo herbs affect the plains indians' way of life?
The Plains Indian Tribes were completely dependent on the buffalo as their source of food, shelter, and clothing. When the white men began destroying the buffalo for sport, the Indians were forced to accept government policy and conform to life on the Indian Reservations.
What type of life did the Blackfoot Americans live?
The Blackfoot are a plains tribe. They followed the buffalo herds, hunted, and grew crops. The horse was very valuable to their lifestyle and they ranged from the central plains to Canada.
What animals were critical to the life of the native Americans on the plains?
Buffalo
How did the destruction of the buffalo affect plains people's?
The Plains people lost their way of life, food, clothing, tools and ability to survive with the destruction of the buffalo.
How did the destruction of the buffalo affect plains people?
The Plains people lost their way of life, food, clothing, tools and ability to survive with the destruction of the buffalo.
What did the natives do when the railroads were finished?
By the time the railroad was complete the Native Americans were fighting for their lives. After Hays won the 1870 election he assigned General Sherman to take care of ridding the plains of the tribes living there. Sherman used total war against the tribes by killing the buffalo. The buffalo was the main source for food. The plains tribes used all of the animal and it was a religious symbol as well. Trains would stop and people would shoot buffalo herds from train windows. The result was the movement of the tribes onto reservations. They were starving to death and with the death of Sitting Bull a way of life was lost.
What caused changes in the life of the plains Indian?
The buffalo because they ranged and provide.
How did the widespread killing of Buffalo affect the plains of Indians?
Buffalo was their was of life. Plains indians used and ate everything on the buffalo. The bones uses as tools, fur for clothing and meat for food. When the buffalo started to decimate so did the indians.
The final blow to Native American tribal life on the Plains was?
The extermination of the buffalo
