The buffalo was the Plains-Injun's meat, utensils, clothing, pottery, lodging, blanket, religion...in short...just about everything!! The Plains were a hostile place until the Spaniards lost some horses to the wild herds, and eventually to the Indians. Then, an Injun' with a horse under him, was the envy of any man!! He was a warrior, a hunter, a king with a crown of feathers...riding tall in the saddle, from one endless horizon to the other...