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 ...
Each region's environment shaped the tribes' ways of living, including their housing, clothing ... American Indians, European settlement, migration, Eastern Woodlands, Great Plains, Southwest ...
Their clothing for the most part was miserable ... With the buffalo gone, the plains Indians depended on government rations. Many natives had agreed to sign the plains treaties in the 1870s ...