The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood ... believed the buffalo were a gift from their god. In a Blackfoot hunting story, Old Man creates mankind out of clay blowing life into the ...

Plains Indians had limited contact with the white ... the Assiniboines and the Blackfoot lived largely nomadic lives, hunting the vast buffalo herds across the land. By the mid-1800s, times ...

Bison — which most tribes refer to as buffalo — are an essential part of many Plains tribes' cultural and spiritual life. Now ...