Buffalo Hunt

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Buffalo Hunt
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Word Knowledge

• Grade 5, Unit 5 - Lesson 2
• Line 1 night knight plains planes tale
  tail
• Line 2 buffalo deer bison elk fish
• Line 3 stretch watch stitch notch match
• Line 4 disappear disagree displease
  mistreat mistook
• Sentence 1 Last night the brave knight told us a
  tale.
• Sentence 2 The Plains Indians depended on the
  buffalo for most of their needs.
• Sentence 3 The women would stretch and stitch
  the skins of bison to make clothing.
• Sentence 4 It would displease our parents if
  they thought we would mistreat our little sister.

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Background Information

• Native Americans used buffalo hides (or skins)
  for clothing and for their homes. They used the
  fur for coats and blankets. They even used the
  bones to make needles!
• The Plain Indians rely on the buffalo to fulfill
  their needs.
• Native Americans fought with Americans because
  they did not want to leave their lands.
• The U.S. government moved Native Americans to
  reservations to stop the fighting.

PLAINS INDIANS
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In olden times, it was said, buffalo used to eat
Indians. They ate so many Indians that a
legendary figure called old Man had to put a
stop to it.

• Native American stories tell of legendary
  characters who could talk to animals.

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Legendary
ADJECTIVE
Told about in a legend or a story
Pancho Villa
Paul Bunyan and Babe

• (N) A legend

Lewis and Clark
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As recently as 150 years ago, countless millions
of buffalo still roamed the prairies and plains.

• As the buffalo roamed the West, the Plains Native
  Americans followed he herds for their hides,
  meat, and horns.

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 Roamed

• Wandered

(V)  (V) To roam (N) A Roamer
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It was a womans job to skin and butcher the
buffalo, to preserve the meat and tan the hides.

• After a summer of good hunting, women of long ago
  would preserve the buffalo meat. This would
  allow their families to have meat all winter.

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Preserve
VERB

• To prepare food so that it can be eaten in the
  future

(V)Preserved/Preserving (N) A Preserve (Adj)
Preservative
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A typical tipi measured perhaps fifteen feet
across at the base, allowing sufficient living
space for the family and its possessions.

• One fat buffalo could supply meat sufficient for
  one hundred people.

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Sufficient
ADJECTIVE

• Enough

Sufficient Food
Sufficient Time

• (Adv) Sufficiently
• (V) Suffice

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First he smoked a ceremonial pipe with one of the
bands elders. Then he reported what he had
seen.

• Many Native American tribes have ceremonial
  clothing that they wear when performing important
  rituals.

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Ceremonial
Adjective

• Describes something related to a ceremony or a
  formal celebration
• p. (414)

Ceremony Ceremonies
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• Alarmed by the large-scale slaughter of their
  herds, angry warriors from many tribes banded
  together.
• The buffalo slaughter continued for so many years
  that today there are almost no buffalo left.

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Slaughter

• NOUN

The killing of large numbers of animals
(V) Slaughtered (V) Slaughtering (N) Slaughterer
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Comprehension Questions

• 1. What senses are the buffalos best?

• 1. Hearing and smell are their best senses.

2. How do buffalo hunter disguise themselves in
winter?
2. They use a buffalo robe to disguise themselves.
3. How did the Blackfoot legend begin?
3. The legend says that buffalo were born beneath
a lake then came out of the water and walk around
the shore.
4. How did the Native Americans hunt buffalo in
the past?
4. They used to hunt buffalo on foot using arrows
and spears.
5. How did horses get to North America?
6. Why did the Plains Indians stop hunting and
fishing?
5. The Spanish explorers brought the horses in
the 1500s.
7. What would several bands of Plains Indians
gather?
6. So they could follow and hunt the buffalo
instead.
8. What were the women supposed to do once the
buffalo had been killed?
7. They gathered to have a big religious
ceremony, a tribal council, or a communal hunt.
8. They had to butcher and skin the buffalo, then
to preserve the meat and tan the hides.