Before the arrival of European settlers, many Native American tribes had established effective methods to sustain their nomadic lifestyles despite limited access to traditional beasts of burden.

In the mid 19th century, the formerly nomadic aboriginal tribes in ... Reservation along the Columbia River, where Native Americans from 12 tribes were designated to live on several million ...

The Cree, the Ojibways, the Saulteus, the Assiniboines and the Blackfoot lived largely nomadic ... and American military strategy. The great beast, which had sustained prairie tribes for hundreds ...

Tribes had lived a largely nomadic life while following the herds across the prairies. At one time, there had been as many as 50 million buffalo on the North American plains. Even in the early ...