. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. he papooses, I picked up the Shoshone language much faster., r^TMothing else of importance happened until we reachedjyfBig Hole Basin. There I saw the first buffalo I had seen^PH^u since crossing the plains. Seven head of them appearedI ^^Sy\ one morning on a hill about a mile away. Ten Indiansvy^ started after them. One, having a wide, blade-Uke spear-head attached to a long shaft, would ride up to a buffalo and cut the hamstrings of both legs, then the others would rush up and kill the wounded animal. About fifteen squaws
. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. he papooses, I picked up the Shoshone language much faster., r^TMothing else of importance happened until we reachedjyfBig Hole Basin. There I saw the first buffalo I had seen^PH^u since crossing the plains. Seven head of them appearedI ^^Sy\ one morning on a hill about a mile away. Ten Indiansvy^ started after them. One, having a wide, blade-Uke spear-head attached to a long shaft, would ride up to a buffalo and cut the hamstrings of both legs, then the others would rush up and kill the wounded animal. About fifteen squaws followed the hunters to skin the bufialoes and get the meat. Mother and I went with them. The squaws would rip the animals down the back from head to tail, then rip them down the belly and take off the top half of the hide and cut away all the meat on that side from the bones. They would tie ropes to the feet of the carcass and turn it over with their ponies, to strip off the skin and flesh from the other side in the same way. The meat was thencarried to camp to be. Meat drying before the tepee of a CrowIndian. 22 The White Indian Boy
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