The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About
It was the material foundation of their entire way of life.
Hides for clothing, tipi covers, and robes.
Sinew for bowstrings and thread.
Bones for tools and sleds.
Fat for cooking and waterproofing.
The processing of a bison carcass yielded nearly one hundred separate useful products.
A community with reliable access to large bison herds was a community with food security, material wealth, and the capacity to trade for goods it could not produce itself.
The Lakota had not always lived in the Powder River Country.
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