Honouring the Buffalo: A Plains Cree Legend

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Author : Judith Silverthorne & Ray Lavallee
ISBN : 9781927756331
Pub. Date : 02/01/2015
Size : 11.00″ x 8.50″
Pages : 48
Genres : Illustrated
Genres : Award-winners/Finalists
Genres : Educational
Genres : Indigenous/Métis
Genres : Children

"A long time ago, Our People came from the Northern Woodlands to the Great Plains looking for food," Grandfather said. "They saw that the Buffalo lived in harmony with Mother Earth the same as Our People did."

Through the Creator, the buffalo gave themselves as a gift for the sustenance and survival of the Plains Cree people. The largest land animal in North America once thundered across the Great Plains in numbers of 30 to 50 million. They provided shelter, food, clothing, tools, hunting gear, ceremonial objects and many other necessities for those who lived on the Plains.

But by 1889, just over a thousand buffalo remained, and the lives of the Plains Cree people changed. The buffalo is honoured to this day, a reminder of life in harmony with nature as it was once lived. This is the story of how the buffalo came to share themselves so freely.

"A long time ago, Our People came from the Northern Woodlands to the Great Plains looking for food," Grandfather said. "They saw that the Buffalo lived in harmony with Mother Earth the same as Our People did."

Through the Creator, the buffalo gave themselves as a gift for the sustenance and survival of the Plains Cree people. The largest land animal in North America once thundered across the Great Plains in numbers of 30 to 50 million. They provided shelter, food, clothing, tools, hunting gear, ceremonial objects and many other necessities for those who lived on the Plains.

But by 1889, just over a thousand buffalo remained, and the lives of the Plains Cree people changed. The buffalo is honoured to this day, a reminder of life in harmony with nature as it was once lived. This is the story of how the buffalo came to share themselves so freely.
9781927756331

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Author
Judith Silverthorne & Ray Lavallee
ISBN
9781927756331
Pub. Date
02/01/2015
Size
11.00″ x 8.50″
Pages
48
Genres
Illustrated
Genres
Award-winners/Finalists
Genres
Educational
Genres
Indigenous/Métis
Genres
Children

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