Once Hunted Are Now Protected 
Their greatest enemies 
were the Indians, who 
shot them with bows and 
arrows to obtain meat for 
food, and skins for cloth¬ 
ing and covering tepees. 
Later the white men 
came, and with their rifles 
shot thousands of buffa¬ 
loes for their skins alone, 
leaving the bodies to 
spoil on the plains. 
It was then that the big 
buffalo led what few were 
left to an unknown val¬ 
ley and there remained 
until laws were passed to 
protect them. 
