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Buffalo, economic impact.
From: The Encyclopedia of Native American Economic History

BUFFALOO—STAFF OF LIFE for THE INDIANSJames Larpenteur Long (Assiniboine)
From: GREAT DOCUMENTS IN AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY

DAILY LIFE ON THE GREAT PLAINS
From: DAILY LIFE OF NATIVE AMERICANS FROM POST-COLUMBIAN THROUGH NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA

The Eastern Shoshone in Wyoming
From: ENDANGERED PEOPLES of North America

The Frontier Closes on the Southwest and Great Plains
From: The Native Peoples of North America

Wildlife Conservation: Slaughter and Salvation of the Bison
From: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN AMERICAN HISTORY

An early European attempt to reconstruct the appearance of a buffalo from the accounts of those who had seen them in America. From André Thevet's Les Singularitéz de la France Antarctique, autrement Amerique (1557).

Native American man on horseback spearing bison. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division (reproduction number: LC-USZ62-115188).

Library of Congress.

Ponca Indians skinning a buffalo. The animal was regarded by many tribes as sacred, providing virtually all the necessities of life.