help?
2007-10-02 16:12:51 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Indians are from India. Buffalo are from Asia.
We are Natives of this land.
Bison are what we hunted... what your ancestors slaughtered to starve us.
Mellow out? That is always your solution. We are told that "it happened a long time ago", and the we "should move forward and forget", but yet, your education system wants to shove the jewish holocaust down our throat and constantly tell us that "it should not be forgotten".
You will never be anything but arrogant. I corrected the asker but you still want to say "buffalo" and "indian".
When we said that the white man speaks with forked tongue, what does that say about our take on you? That you are governed by the spirit of a serpent? Yet, look at your history and words. They still emanate that spirit.
Harsh words? Calm down? Yeah, that's always your solution.
2007-10-02 16:20:57 · answer #1 · answered by Darth Scandalous 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
To the plain Indians, the Buffalo was a "one-stop" shopping center!
The hides were used in clothing and to make blankets and tee-pis...the meat was eaten, and dried and stored. The bones were used to make tools..everything from fish hooks to sewing needles...the horns were used as knife handles...the muscles and sinew were used to make rope and to tie arrow heads to shafts.
Whenever a buffalo was killed, what little was left (and there wasn't much!) was used in a ceremony to the Great Spirit (or Giche Manitu) to ask that another 2 would be born in it's place...so that they would never "go away."
It wasn't until the white man began hunting them almost to extinction that the buffalo population suffered. Some speculate that the mass hunting of the buffalo was done intentionally to help control the Indians into "staying put" on Reservations instead of following the heards of buffalo.
I hope this answers your question...Good Luck!
2007-10-02 23:31:35 · answer #2 · answered by MACHNGUN 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
For the Plains Indians the buffalo (bison americanus) was used for practically everything: food, clothing, shelter, religious articles, musical instruments, medicine, sewing needles, toys, ceremonial articles. I even read an article where they found a Sioux sled made from buffalo ribs.
The senseless killing of the buffalo by white settlers was one of the ways of forcing the Plains Indians into submission.
2007-10-02 23:32:31 · answer #3 · answered by bubbabear 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Food, they also used the fur for warmth, they also used the hide for clothing, thread, to build shelter, drums etc. They used al parts of the Buffalo. Also, when the settlers slaughtered a bunch of Buffalo in SD, WY, MT etc this caused a lot of heartache and famine for the Western Tribes. Also, the Buffalo was very sacred. You should look into some encyclopedias and go to your school library for research.
2007-10-02 23:23:33 · answer #4 · answered by swedegirl 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
it was such an amazing intertwined relationship nothing was wasted the hides were used as blankets ground cover and forming teepee's the flesh was cooked and smoked and jerked for the winter the brains were used in curing the hide and the tendons were used for the making of bows and arrows the bile was extracted and used for preserving the liver the leader was given the heart for courage the bones and horns were used for carvings and fetishes the milk for cheese and the relationship was one of spirit believing that there buffalo brothers gave there life for them it is note worthy to say no part was ever wasted and they carefully used the meat to sustain life in balance with nature
2007-10-06 23:12:14 · answer #5 · answered by swymanpsychic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were a source of food for many tribes, the meat was used in many fashions from a jerky to stews. The hides were used as clothing and they fashioned their homes from tanned buffalo hide. Wow Sensei needs to mellow out...relax there Chief.
2007-10-02 23:21:48 · answer #6 · answered by caminolargo76 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋