Buffalo, Cattle

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 Curved horns. To distinguish domestic cattle, add spotted. 

Circa 1887 The Navajo reverse this; that is, with them the curved horns as above means cattle, to which they add beard, to mean buffalo. —Sign Talk of the Cheyenne Indians Ernest Thompson Seton


When the scouts found buffalo, plenty buffalo, and the village was moving in near in view of them, they would ride backward and forward in sight of the village.


“ An animal depends a great deal on the natural conditions around it. If the buffalo were here today, I think they would be different from the buffalo of the old days because all the natural conditions have changed.”. —Okute of the Teton Sioux

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