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n this project you will discover the importance of the buffalo to the
Native Americans and how the buffalo was wiped out with the Native
Americans. The buffalo provided the Native Americans with everything
they needed to survive and in return the people worshiped the buffalo
as if it was a god. To European settlers travelling across America's
Great Plains in the early 1800s, the prairie wind was a constant
companion: a gentle whisper echoing across the vast sea of grass that
carpeted the centre of the North American continent. Sometimes,
however, the rumbling of thunder could be heard in the distance, even
though no storm clouds could be seen. Then the ground would begin to
tremble and suddenly the astonished people would be surrounded by a
herd of bulky animals that stretched further than the eye could see.
The majestic welcoming committee made it clear that the settlers had,
at last, arrived in the buffalo nation: a land where millions and
millions of American Bison stayed.

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The Plains Indians
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There are many types of Plains Indians from different parts of the
plains, for example the Chneyenne, Arapaho, Comamche and the Kowa
Apache. It was the Plains Indians who violently resisted the white
people in their attempt to push westward across the Great Plains to
the Pacific coast. It was the Plains Indians that had there life
altered by white people, cattlemen, cowboys, pioneers and Homsteaders
who all wanted the Great Plains to themselves.



The sad story of the bufalo
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The sad story nearly a century ago of the buffalo nation was destroyed
by greed and uncontrolled hunting and the efforts of Native American
leaders dedicated to bringing back the...