{"id":22299,"date":"2022-08-07T15:27:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=22299"},"modified":"2022-08-07T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:29:05","slug":"conte-kiowa-the-buffalo-go","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-kiowa-comanche\/story-kiowa-the-buffalo-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiowa Story: The Buffalo Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-kiowa-comanche\/\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKiowa-Comanche mythology<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpeople.us\/FP-Html-Legends\/TheBuffaloGo-Kiowa.html\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWiki<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>are\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-kiowa-comanche\/\">Kiowas<\/a><\/strong> are a Native American nation that lived primarily on the plains of western <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythes-et-legendes-muskogeens-2136\/\">Texas<\/a>, Oklahoma and eastern New Mexico at the time of European settlement. Here is their tale: The Buffalo Go.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"The Buffalo Go\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-kiowa-comanche\/story-kiowa-the-buffalo-go\/#The-Buffalo-Go\" >The Buffalo Go<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The-Buffalo-Go\"><\/span>The Buffalo Go<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Everything the Kiowas had come from the buffalo. Their tipi&rsquo;s were<br \/>\nmade of buffalo hides; so were their clothes and moccasins. They<br \/>\nate buffalo meat. Their containers were made of hide, bladders,<br \/>\nor stomachs. The buffalo were the life of the Kiowas.<\/p>\n<p>Most of all, the buffalo was part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-kiowa-comanche\/\">Kiowa<\/a> religion. A white<br \/>\nbuffalo calf must be sacrificed in the sun dance. The priests used<br \/>\nparts of the buffalo to make their prayers when they healed people<br \/>\nor when they sang to the powers above.<\/p>\n<p>So when the white men wanted to build railroads, or when they wanted<br \/>\nto farm and raise cattle, the buffalo still protected the Kiowas.<br \/>\nThey tore up the railroad tracks and the gardens. They chased the<br \/>\ncattle off the ranges. The buffalo loved their people as much as<br \/>\nthe Kiowas loved them.<\/p>\n<p>There was war between the buffalo and the white men. The white<br \/>\nmen built forts in the Kiowa country, and the woolly-headed buffalo<br \/>\nsoldiers (the Tenth Cavalry, made up of Negro troops) shot the buffalo<br \/>\nas fast as they could, but the buffalo still kept coming on, coming<br \/>\non, even into the post cemetery at Fort Sill. Soldiers were not<br \/>\nenough to hold them back.<\/p>\n<p>Then the white men hired hunters to do nothing but kill the buffalo.<br \/>\nUp and down the plains those men ranged, shooting sometimes as many<br \/>\nas a hundred buffalo a day. Behind them came the skinners with their<br \/>\nwagons. They piled the hides and bones into the wagons until they<br \/>\nwere full, and then took their loads to the new railroad stations<br \/>\nthat were being built, to be shipped east to the market. Sometimes<br \/>\nthere would be a pile of bones as high as a man, stretching a mile<br \/>\nalong the railroad track.<\/p>\n<p>The buffalo saw that their day was over. They could protect their<br \/>\npeople no longer. Sadly, the last remnant of the great herd gathered<br \/>\nin council, and decided what they would do.<\/p>\n<p>The Kiowas were camped on the north side of Mount Scott, those<br \/>\nof them who were still free to camp. One young woman got up very<br \/>\nearly in the morning. The dawn mist was still rising from Medicine<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/creek-seminole-mythology\/\">Creek<\/a>, and as she looked across the water, peering through the haze,<br \/>\nshe saw the last buffalo herd appear like a spirit dream.<\/p>\n<p>Straight to Mount Scott the leader of the herd walked. Behind him<br \/>\ncame the cows and their calves, and the few young males who had<br \/>\nsurvived. As the woman watched, the face of the mountain opened.<\/p>\n<p>Inside Mount Scott the world was green and fresh, as it had been<br \/>\nwhen she was a small girl. The rivers ran clear, not red. The wild<br \/>\nplains were in blossom, chasing the red buds up the inside slopes.<\/p>\n<p>Into this world of beauty the buffalo walked, never to be seen again.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiowa-Comanche Mythology Wiki he Kiowas are a Native American nation that lived primarily on the plains of western Texas, Oklahoma... <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3983,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22299","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22303,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22299\/revisions\/22303"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}