Imagine a sea of shaggy, brown giants stretching to every horizon, their thundering hooves shaking the earth beneath your ...

“My passion, I guess, is to preserve what our ancestors created in terms of buffalo hide paintings,” Cloud said. “Preserving that intellectual knowledge sort of speak of traditional methods ...

But the arrival of the railroads in the early 1870s, and a new demand for buffalo hides to be used in the belts driving industrial machines back East, brought thousands of hide hunters to the ...

New tanning techniques were discovered that made buffalo hides valuable for the belts that ran factory machinery in the industrial East, and thousands of hunters rushed west to feed the insatiable ...

(As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) For centuries, the buffalo provided the essentials of life for prairie natives. The fur and hide were made into clothing and shelter, and the meat was ...

I’m hoping to see more hands-on training in traditional arts and crafts—for instance, young people learning to tan a buffalo hide, construct a tepee and prepare traditional medicines and foods.

The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood, Sarcee, Peigan and Blackfoot among others - with almost everything they needed. Hides were dressed and made into clothing and stretched onto poles ...

C. M. Gilbert is an artist. How much does a C. M. Gilbert cost? The maker's first piece to be offered at auction was "BUFFALO HIDE PAINTING OF MULTNOMAN" at Caza Sikes in 2021.