People of the Buffalo: How the Plains Indians Lived

An intimate, illustrated look at the lives of the Plains First Nations.

No other group in Northern America has been more romanticized and stereotyped than the Plains First Nations-the Blackfoot, Plains Cree, Dakota, Kiowa and other tribes of the grasslands. These peoples did not separate their lives as we do today into categories such as work, play, religion, law and art. To them, every part of life and all forms of life made up a spiritual whole: a self-sufficient way of life attuned to nature.

This book, with its authenticated drawings, tells how these people lived: how they hunted buffalo, and made their tepees, clothing and tools. It also explains their beliefs, ceremonies and feeling for family life.