“You probably would have been on foot for a month or so just to get here to use this buffalo jump.” The jump was so important to native sustenance and culture that tribal animosities would be ...

the impact of the railroad on Native American life, and the near-extinction of the American buffalo. The world of Plains Indians and of other American Indians in the West had existed for several ...

In the 1870s, millions of plains buffalo in Canada and the United States were killed for sport, profit and American military strategy. The great beast, which had sustained prairie tribes for ...

Stephanie Waterman (Onondaga/OISE/UofT). Drs Lowe and Waterman are co-editors of the award-winning book, Beyond the Asterisks: Native American Students in Higher Education. The eighth annual UB ...

At one time, there had been as many as 50 million buffalo on the North American plains. Even in the early 1870s, there were herds so vast that it took several days to pass them. Then two ...

Their history tour brings Native American culture alive with a visit to the buffalo jump sites, tipi rings, powwows and the Museum of the Plains Indian. You can go horseback riding following the ...

This was quite deliberate. In fact, the buffalo herds in North America were slaughtered in order to destroy the tribes that relied on them. Native American children were sent to boarding schools ...

This Thanksgiving, we’ve asked seven Native American chefs from different cultural ... at a lower temperature—270° for 5 hours. The buffalo will come out still yummy and deliciously succulent ...