Buffalo
Horse-Mounted Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
The Northern Plains include what is now North and South Dakota, Eastern Montana, northeastern Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. For the […]
Buffalo
Buffalo Hunting Among Northern Plains Indians Prior to the Horse
For thousands of years, the Indian nations of the Northern Plains relied upon the buffalo—technically bison, but commonly called buffalo—for food, for clothing, for shelter, […]
The Avonlea Complex
The common stereotype of Plains Indians sees them as horse-mounted buffalo hunters. The reality is, of course, that Plains Indians did not adopt the horse […]
Cultures in Contact on the Northern Plains
In the late 1700s, Europeans began to arrive on the Northern Plains in Alberta, Canada and their arrival brought a century of great cultural change […]
Napi’s World
Traditionally, the Indian nations of the Northern Plains, such as the Blackfoot, were egalitarian. Within Blackfoot society, there were no individuals, no groups of people, […]
Ancient America: The Buffalo Hunt
At the beginning of the European invasion of North America, there may have been as many as 75 million buffalo on the Great Plains. For […]
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Centre
There are probably thousands of buffalo jumps scattered across the Northern Plains. The Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the […]
Indians Saving the Buffalo People
For the Plains Indians, the buffalo (technically bison) was more than an important source of food, shelter, and clothing: the buffalo was also an important […]
First Nations News & Views: Tribes Work to Return the Bison
Welcome to the first edition of First Nations News & Views. This weekly series is one element in the “Invisible Indians” project put together by […]
Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
( – promoted by navajo) The Great Plains stretches from the Canadian provinces in the north, almost to the Gulf of Mexico in the south, […]