They were valuable and used them for everything.
Buffalo
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.
I believe the Great Plains tribe hunted buffalo because their shelter (i believe) was made out of buffalo hide.
The Plains depended on the buffalo.
Buffalo
Buffalo supplied food, clothing and housing.
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 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.
buffalo, horse
for clothing and blankets
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.