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To: longnshort who wrote (15105)	11/28/2006 4:23:27 PM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

longshort, Not true. I don't know where you heard that, and they only used the cliffs before they had horses. The part of the buffalo that meant the most to them was the liver, and not the tongue, as a sacred piece of meat. After the buffalo were run off the cliff, the men went down and took a bite out of the raw liver, but after that, the women, and teenagers, went down, and cut all of the edible meat in sizes they could move on a dog pulled travois, took the stomachs to be used as bags in which they boiled the meat, the larger bones were used for weapons, or tools, and the small ones were used for things such as needles to sew the hides into clothing, and every tepee had several buffalo hides to be used as bedding and protection from the cold winters. What they did not boil, and eat at once, they mixed meat with berries and made pemican to be eaten while the tribe was on the move. It was the white buffalo hunters that used long rifles to kill buffalo, take the hides for sale, and left the rest to rot on the prairie. The buffalo was the main food for all of the prairie tribes, and others that came down from the Rocky Mountains to harvest buffalo meat to eat during the winter when game was scarce, and they could not grow vegetables, berries, and in some cases, grain. Why don't you go up to North Dakota, and tell your tale to the Lakota. You will not be the same man when you come back, if you do come back. The slaughter on the prairie was ordered by General Sherman to try and starve the Indians into submission. I wonder if you can be proud of your ancestors.