The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood ... In a Blackfoot hunting story, Old Man creates mankind out of clay blowing life into the human forms. "They asked him, 'What are we to eat?' ...

By 1900, the American buffalo teetered on the brink of disappearing forever, and Native people of the Plains entered one ... including Old Lady Horse, a Kiowa woman who describes her tribe ...

At one time, there had been as many as 50 million buffalo on the North American plains. Even in the early 1870s, there were herds so vast that it took several days to pass them. Then two ...