staple diet in plains?
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When asked to state traditional staple foods, a group of Plains elders identified prairie turnips, fruits (chokecherries, June berries, plums, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, buffalo berries, gooseberries), potatoes, squash, dried meats (venison, buffalo, jack rabbit, pheasant, and prairie chicken)
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The only staple food for the Plains Indians was the buffalo. They used every single thing from their kill, from the meat to the bones. Tendons were used for thread and rope, the bladder for water, the hooves for glue, and the bones for tools. Manure was burned for fuel, and the skin tanned for leather or used as a blanket with the wool left on. Meat was preserved by drying and pounded into powder with berries mixed in. No part of the animal was wasted. Indians were so dependent on the bison that they starved when white men came west and slaughtered bison by the millions. This was the end of the Plains Indians as much as wars with US troops.