To: madison10
You're thinking of the Mandan O-Kee-Pa rites, recorded by painter George Catlin in the 1830s.
At least they had religious and practical reasons to undergo this rite (they believed it "made the buffalo come".)
39 posted on
06/29/2014 2:25:40 PM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
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To: AnAmericanMother
At least they had religious and practical reasons to undergo this rite (they believed it “made the buffalo come”.)
If this is what it took to get the Buffalo to show up then the Buffalo were a bunch of jerks!
61 posted on
06/29/2014 4:58:26 PM PDT by
Rides_A_Red_Horse
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To: AnAmericanMother
That’s the photo. I think it was in one of my dad’s American Heritage books. (read those things cover to cover for fun)
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