Bison-hunting Plains indians more advanced than thought Bison-hunting Plains indians more advanced than thought mongabay.com August 15, 2006 A controversial new theory argues that ancient plains ...

Cost of a “canned-buffalo hunt” on private lands? $4,000. Dominant Great Plains buffalo hunting tribes? The Crow, Blackfoot, Sioux, Pawnee, Kiowa, Comanche.

Plains Indians and the Buffalo A thousand years after the West Coast culture took shape, ... The buffalo hunt involved most of the village, including women and some children.

Plains Indians had learned to hunt the buffalo skillfully with a bow and arrow, while the white professional hunter hired to supply meat to railroad crews used a rifle of long distance accuracy.

A buffalo hunt on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation photographed by Frank Fiske in the early 1900s. The Lakota and Yanktonail Sioux for generations depended heavily on the once-plentiful buffalo.

For thousands of years man followed the vast herds, hunting them for their meat, hides, and bones. From the buffalo early man fashioned everything they needed to survive on the Llano.