Tahtonka (Plains Indians Buffalo Culture)

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1968

Format: 16mm

Description: Re-enactment of the last days of great buffalo herds and the end of the powerful plains Indians tribes. Shows the buffalo hunts, the ceremonial as well as the economic importance of the buffalo to the Indians, the conflict with settlers, exploiters, and railroad builders, and the final near-extermination of the buffalo and the defeat of the Indians by the U.S. Calvary.

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