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Images of the Buffalo Culture |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Ronald McCoy |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1989 |
| Size: 3,349 Words, 21,399 Characters |
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Little more than a century ago, tens of thousands of Indians occupied North America's Great Plains, a sprawling geographic province stretching from southern Canada to the Mexican border, spanning the vast prairies between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers in the east and the Rocky Mountains in the west.
These Plains Indians lived in a land of contrasts and extremes, a place of towering peaks and plummeting canyons, of droughts and flash floods, of blistering heat and numbing frost, where life was a miracle and death loomed just over one's shoulder.
Most lived in the roving hunting bands that formed such tribes as the Sioux, Shoshone, Kiowa, and Crow. Dispersing in spring and summer, coming together again in winter encampments, they followed paths laid out by perhaps as many a...
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...re than a century since the last war parties, horse raids, and buffalo hunts became campfire memories, flickering images still reflected in Plains Indian ledger art. But there is more, for like the shaman who brings death to life again, these images of the buffalo culture retain a capacity for reviving that distinctly American dream of a strange and wonderful frontier just beyond the horizon.
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