USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The hunters would drive the herd to the chute by slapping their robes against the ground. Once the herd was inside, they would be shot with arrows. These two communal hunting methods required skill, courage, teamwork, and dedication. Often entire tribes would help with the hunt.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Arapaho, Assiniboine, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Plains Apache, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwe, Sarsi, Shoshone, Sioux, and Tonkawa. and were all nomadic tribes who followed the buffalo herds and lived in tipis.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Native Americans of the Great Plains had relied upon and hunted buffalo for thousands of years. Without the arrival of the Caucasians-and with them the gun, the horse, and the market for bison products-it seems likely the Indians could have lived sustainably with the bison far into the future.

Detailed explanation-4: -The buffalo played an important role in the lives of nomadic Texas Plains Indians, especially the Comanche and Kiowa. More than a hundred year before commercial buffalo hunters began killing the Plains buffalo for profit, Plains Indians had hunted buffalo for their main source of food, clothing and housing.