Transcript: Guarding the Buffalo | Транскрипт: Охрана Бизонов |
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Guarding
the Buffalo Охрана
Бизонов |
When the Kiowa were all in one large village they guarded the Buffalo--if that was not done--men would go off secretly before sunrise in different directions and drive the buffalo far away from the village and starve everybody else--they would be exhausted looking for meat--the soldiers guard the buffalo--if they see anybody going to hunt buffalo on the wrong day they stop him--then at the right time they all go out--the soldiers scattered along the front--holding the people back, restraining their impatience until all are ready and when the principal man gives the signal they charge the buffalo--everybody kills buffalo that way and gets enough to eat--they cut up meat enough to last ten or twelve days or more--by that time the buffalo have recovered from their fright and are back again near the village--then they do it again--if they use guns or pistols it frightens the buffalo that hear it for a long distance around and they leave the section--all the old men advised to use bows and arrows and spears only in that way the buffalo would be back around camp in two days--small camps did not guard the buffalo--when they were guarding the buffalo the soldiers would whip anybody who went out to shoot deer or anything else--the buffalo when scared will usually run about three miles--then walk for four miles--then he calms down and eats grass--the elk or big bear do not get tired--no tired no stop--they are strong--they keep going--the bear goes over mountain after mountain before he stops.
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