After the Buffalo

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It's 1894 and you are a young Cheyenne . The buffalo herd have been the life of your people. From the flesh you have had meat. Buffalo tongue and liver are especially delicious. Buffalo hide has given you clothing, tepees, robes, moccasins, saddles, even dolls. Buffalo bones give you tools. Buffalo hair makes your rope.

Your men and boys have taken only the buffalo that you need to live. But now the whites have come. White hunters and white settlers have destroyed the great herds of buffalo. Once the buffalo are totally gone, what will become of the Cheyenne , your people? What will become of you, a young person?

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Cheyenne Indians lived on the Great Plains in 1864 in what is present day South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas. They were nomadic people and traveled the Plains following food for survival.

Watch this video that shows in depth how Native Americans used every part of the buffalo for survival: http://www.history.com/videos/the-buffalo-and-native-americans#the-buffalo-and-native-americans

For what reasons did white settlers come to the Great Plains?

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