Presents paintings and tribal song-poems that express the buffalo's essential and sacred role in the lives of Plains Native Americans, and discusses the buffalo's dramatic decline in number during the nineteenth century.
Discusses the history of the American bison, commonly called the buffalo, its physical characteristics and habits, and efforts to preserve the species.
Fifteen-year-old Amanda's refined life in early twentieth-century San Francisco is disrupted when she grudgingly accompanies her mother to the Oklahoma Territory on a crusade to save the buffalo.