{"id":22304,"date":"2022-08-07T15:29:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=22304"},"modified":"2022-08-07T15:32:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:32:14","slug":"conte-kiowa-passing-of-the-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-kiowa-comanche\/tale-kiowa-passing-of-the-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiowa Story: Passing of the Buffalo"},"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\/ThePassingoftheBuffalo-Kiowa.html\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWiki<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\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 Passing of the Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"The Passing of the Buffalo\" 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\/tale-kiowa-passing-of-the-buffalo\/#The-Passing-of-the-Buffalo\" >The Passing of the Buffalo<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The-Passing-of-the-Buffalo\"><\/span>The Passing of the Buffalo<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Once, not long ago, the buffalo were everywhere. Wherever the people<br \/>were, there were the buffalo. They loved the people and the people<br \/>loved the buffalo. When the people killed a buffalo, they did it<br \/>with reverence. They gave thanks to the buffalo&#039;s spirit. They used<br \/>every part of the buffalo they killed. The meat was their food.<br \/>The skins were used for clothing and to cover their tipi&#039;s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hair stuffed their pillows and saddlebags. The sinews became their<br \/>bowstrings. From the hooves, they made glue. They carried water<br \/>in the bladders and stomachs. To give the buffalo honor, they painted<br \/>the skull and placed it facing the rising sun.<\/p>\n<p>Then the whites came. They were new people, as beautiful and as<br \/>deadly as the black spider. The whites took the lands of the people.<br \/>They built the railroad to cut the lands of the people in half.<br \/>It made life hard for the people and so the buffalo fought the railroad.<br \/>The buffalo tore up the railroad tracks. They chased away the cattle<br \/>of the whites.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The buffalo loved the people and tried to protect<br \/>their way of life. So the army was sent to kill the buffalo. Aim,<br \/>even the soldiers could not hold the buffalo back. Then the army<br \/>hired hunters. The hunters came and killed and killed. Soon the<br \/>bones of the buffalo covered the land to the height of a tall man.<br \/>The buffalo saw they could fight no longer.<\/p>\n<p>One morning, a <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-kiowa-comanche\/\">Kiowa<\/a> woman whose family was running from the Army<br \/>rose early from their camp deep in the hills. She went down to the<br \/>spring near the mountainside to get water. She went quietly, alert<br \/>for enemies. The morning mist was thick, but as she bent to fill<br \/>her bucket, she saw something. It was something moving in the mist.<\/p>\n<p>As she watched, the mist parted and out of it came an old buffalo<br \/>cow. It was one of the old buffalo women, who always led the herds.<br \/>Behind her came the last few young buffalo warriors, their horns<br \/>scarred from fighting, some of them wounded. Among them were a few<br \/>calves and young cows.<\/p>\n<p>Straight toward the side of the mountain, the old buffalo cow led<br \/>that last herd. As the Kiowa woman watched, the mountain opened<br \/>up in front of them and the buffalo walked into the mountain. Within<br \/>the mountain, the Earth was green and new. The sun shone and the<br \/>meadowlarks were singing. It was as it had been before the whites<br \/>cam. Then the mountain closed behind them.<\/p>\n<p>The buffalo were gone.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiowa-Comanche Mythology Wiki The 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-22304","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22304","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=22304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22308,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22304\/revisions\/22308"}],"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=22304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}