Buffalo hunt; ByRussell Freedman

The start of the buffalo took place at the location of the bottom of a deep, dark, and massive lake from swirling sea foam. The sea foam massed in some places comprising flesh and other places swirling around forming diminutive hair. The stories show that the buffalo once consumed the Indians but buffalo were magic. Indians did not appreciate that reputation or want to be treated cruelly so a race was organized and the Indians won so from then on the Indians ate the buffalo and used their possessions for warmth. Before the race things were harder to kill and the Indians didn’t have horses to help keep pace with the buffalo. A couple of centuries later the Indians improved their weapons and caught horses to ride on while hunting or traveling. Although the Indians weapons and ways of transportation improved thy still did not discover guns to kill buffalo. Indians hunting buffalo

The best hunting took place in the fall when the buffalo were putting on their winter fat. Because of this the Indians had a festival and had a massive hunt witch kind of like a community fair. In it everybody attended to it and everybody participated in it. It was the shaman or medicine mans job to attract the buffalo so that the hunter could kill them. What the shaman or median man needed to do this was a buffalo skull that was considered sacred, the cooperation of the spirits. This allows the hunters to advance quickly and kill buffalo by getting close to them. Medicine men and shamans where honored spiritual leaders of the tribe. The median men and shamans were also known as holy men. The shamans were a prophet with mystical powers that were expected to cure sickness, cast spells, and scrutinized into the future. A buffalo skull upon witch shamans and medicine men prayed to

The Indians got up at sunrise and started packing their things. They prepared their pack horses and their hunting horses and dogs. The pack horses and dogs pulled travois's with their belongings sick or elderly. There were three sections of the hunting group, the hunters in the front the children in the middle and the travois’s in the back followed by helpers that comprised sure nobody got left behind or died. The women carried heavy packs and the men didn’t incase of a surprise assault so that the men could handle their weapons. The buffalo were friends with the white wolves so the hunters often draped white wolf hide over them and snuck on the buffalo. The hunters horses were trained to approach from the right so that the Indians could shoot them down. There were strict rules for hunting and the rules were you can’t go after buffalo alone, everybody receives equal amount of food from buffalo while the hunter gets to keep the carcass and other belongings of the buffalo, must stay together, you can’t startle or stampede the buffalo or you will be flogged, and the marshals must direct the assault. The punishments ranged from a warning a fine to whipping. Notice the Indians are obeying the rules of the hunt.

The Indians used almost everything from the buffalo they trounced. The Indians comprised tipi’s, robes, hunting gear, and braids from the carcass. They comprised water skins and other things to hold water from the buffalo stomachs. They comprised glue out of their hooves and flyswatters out of their tails. The Indians comprised soap out of the buffalo fat and cups addles and spoons from the horns. The Indians soaked the hide in the juice that came out of the brains to soften it and after they ate the brains. The Indians sharpened the bones and comprised tem into many tools. The women are soaking the hide in brain juice

The buffalo slowly faded because the white men started coming and trading for the buffalo robes and coats. The Indians wanted to obtain the white men’s goods so they hunted buffalo more so that they could trade with the white men. The Indians continued hunting for the white men’s goods and soon the Indians had killed so much that thousands of buffalo tongues and hides were being shipped to the east cities in the 1840s. In the 1860s the buffalo really began to disappear because of all the hunting that the Indians were doing for the white men. The Indians stopped hunting and the white men became furious. The white men then started making more expensive and faster ways of tanning hides. Because of this there became professional hide hunters that hunted buffalo and killed about 73,000 hides a year. A couple of years later the Indians glimpsed their main source of food, clothing, and shelter vanish. The Indians became slaves and were drove of their land. Their children were taken and sent to boarding schools to learn the white men’s costumes and language. The remaining buffalo

Image locations uffalo.jpg The Sioux Song; I go to kill the buffalo. The grconsume spirit sent the buffalo. On hills, in plains and woods. So give me my bow; give me my bow; I go to kill the buffalo.