Helen Augare sits on a buffalo hide in her home ... a cultural icon for the Blackfoot people. The symbol shows up in generations-old arts and crafts, such as this drum that has been passed down ...

The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood, Sarcee, Peigan and Blackfoot among others - with almost everything they needed. Hides were dressed and made into clothing and stretched onto poles ...

It all began years ago for Blackledge, who was vacationing in Montana when he heard an old folktale from a park ranger who was part of the Blackfoot ... brought in a buffalo hide from his ...

Lance Oldman, right, ties tepee poles together with a long rope, or seenook, during the Northern Arapaho Tribe's unveiling of a traditional 16-foot-tall buffalo hide tepee on Thur ...

The documentary tells the story of a small group of Blackfoot people and their mission to establish the first wild buffalo herd on their ancestral territory since the species’ near-extinction a ...