How was the buffalo important to Native Americans and the great plains?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

For the Tanaina, Ahtena, Aleut and Kutchin of Alaska, the Caribou Eskimo, the Kwakiutl, Haida and Nootka of the north-west coast, the Beothuk and Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, the coast Chumash and Yahi of California, the Aztecs, Mixtecs and Zapotecs of Mexico, the Maya of Yucatan, Belize and Guatemala, the Incas of Peru and all the many rainforest tribes of South America the buffalo meant absolutely nothing - because they never saw one.

Around 95% of all native Americans never encountered buffalo - only the relatively small number of tribes on the Great Plains and neighbouring regions were buffalo hunters. For that 5% the buffalo provided practically all requirements in terms of food, shelter, winter robes and bedding, tools, leather, sinew and much more. Only clothing was the exception - much softer tanned hides could be obtained from other game animals such as elk, deer, antelope and mountain sheep.

Answer 3

When native american living on the plains used a buffalo carcass, they used as much of it as possible. The skin and fur was used for leather and clothing and tents. the meat was cooked and smoked. They used the horns as vessels to carry things. The bones were made into needles for clothing. The stomachs were used to carry water and intestines were turned into rope-like substance used to tie arrowheads to arrow shafts.

Answer 4

To the Plains Indians it represented Manna from Heaven.it was the essence of their life it gave them anything they needed

Answer 5

they were important to feed the native americans

Answer 6

The Native Americans would hunt and kill buffalo. They would eat the meat and use the fur as clothing. The clothing would keep them warm during cold weather.