There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.
It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country.
I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves.
The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.
Indians were frequently off their reservations.
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.
The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically.
There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.