USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Kiowa Indians moved around to follow buffalo herds before Euro-American settlers came to the area that became Kansas and Colorado. In this quote from around 1900, a Kiowa Indian woman described what the buffalo meant to her people: “Everything the Kiowas had came from the buffalo.

Detailed explanation-2: -For thousands of years, the lives of the Buffalo Nation and the Lakota people were spiritually and physically interconnected-as herds roamed free across the North American plains, this nomadic tribe followed. As the buffalo roamed the Plains, so did the Lakota.

Detailed explanation-3: -Many tribes, including the Crow and Arapaho (pronounced uh-RAH-puh-hoh), survived by following bison herds as they migrated from place to place. These groups needed homes that could be quickly taken down and rebuilt again, so they lived in tent-like structures made of buffalo skins called tepees.

Detailed explanation-4: -Indian tribes such as Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Sioux decided to move to the plains in part because of the vast herds of buffalo that lived there. Even though the buffalo became the Indians’ “walking grocery store, ” the number of Indians was small and the number of buffalo was huge.