A thousand years after the West Coast culture took shape, around 6,000 BC, a plains culture formed around the buffalo. The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood, Sarcee, Peigan and ...

As the buffalo were exterminated, Tribes suffered forced relocations onto reservations, lost prosperity, and starvation.

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 ...

By 1900, the American buffalo teetered on the brink of disappearing forever, and Native people of the Plains entered one of the most traumatic moments of their existence. In just over a decade the ...

Wood Buffalo is Canada’s largest national park ... Landscape The park’s varied landscape includes boreal forest, salt plains, and gypsum karst landforms. The boreal plains near the Northwest ...