ANTH 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Crow Nation, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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Horsemen, hunters of bison, antelope, moose, grizzly bear. Generalizations of the lifestyle and diet, etc. of these peoples. Not big farmers, but they were big hunters https://www. google. ca/search?q=plains+and+prairie+peoples&biw=1366&bih=659&source=lnm s&tbm=isch&sa=x&ved=0ahukewip45jyrlhsahws34mkhvckdgyq_auibigb. 19th century, before rush to go out for bison, 60 million buffalo in great plains. Bison hides for clothes, shelter, food, bones for tools/utensils/weapons, organs as medicines, stomachs for pouches. Euro contact with spanish brought horse to people of high plains. Beame means of travel and food obtaining, military superiority. Spanish used indians as horse handlers apache , pawnee and other prairie tribes would steal and trade for horses because they understood how helpful they would be to them. Tribes would trade horses for whisky and guns, but often for trinkets. 9 diff words for horse in crow lang. Plains cult = bison divided by horse and bow and arrow. Horse made hunting, raiding and travel(micro/macro(moving village and going far distance) treks) easier travel : micro treks hunting and military purposes.
