HONOURING THE BUFFALO

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Honouring the Buffalo is an all ages picture book collaboration between Raymond Lavallee, Judith Silverthorne and Mike Keepness. The credit for this book belongs to Raymond Lavallee, a Wisdom Keeper and Cree Storyteller, who asked Judith to help him write the oral stories in book form to preserve them. 

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Synopsis

An estimated thirty to fifty million bison once thundered across the Great Plains and much of North America.

Honouring the Buffalo is the story of how the Buffalo gifted themselves so freely through the Creator to the Plains Cree people to help them survive. Discover how every part of the buffalo was used to provide shelter, food, clothing, tools, hunting, spiritual ceremonies and many other necessities.

A long time ago Our People came from the Northern Woodlands to the Great Plains looking for food,” Grandfather said. “They saw that the Buffalo lived in harmony with Mother Earth the same as Our People did.”

Through the Creator, Buffalo gave themselves as a gift for the sustenance and survival of the Plains Cree people.  This largest land animal in North America once thundered across the Great Plains  in numbers of 30 to 50 million. They provided shelter, food, clothing, tools, hunting gear, ceremonial objects, and many other necessities for those who lived on the Plains.

But by 1889, just over a thousand buffalo remained, and the lives of the Plains Cree people changed. Buffalo are honoured to this day, a reminder of life in harmony that was once lived.

This book tells the story of how Buffalo came to share themselves so freely.

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