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Compare And Contrast The Lives Of Buffalo And Native Americans

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Two animals that dominated the lives of the tribe’s were the horses and buffalo. Horses gave them mobility the tribes tended not to stay in one place they stayed two weeks at the most they were constantly moving. More important than the horse were the buffalo there were millions of buffalo that lived on the plains. When the civil war was over there were fifteen to thirty million buffalo living on the plains wildly freely grazing. When Spaniards traveled to the Plains and planned to stay and see how many buffalo passed. The tribes would eat all parts of the buffalo the tongue, liver and use the hides for shelter to build homes, horns as spoons, tails as pain brushes the fur was used to make cloths and blankets, and used the bones as tools,

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