For the Crow, buffalo was one of the greatest gifts of the Creator. Providing everything that was needed for food and shelter, it symbolized how closely their people lived in harmony with the natural world. The buffalo, said Grant “is everything to us”. But above all, it was a potent source of energy; people who had buffalo energy were virtually invincible. “Our shadows,” he says, “became weak when the buffalo were gone”.
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