Show buffalo medicine given to red men E Eal abfal TaIo lo 10 for centuries one of the most important things in indian life ife will again be used by the red men of 31 tribes who pa participate in the annual in ter tribal indian ceremonial Cere monal at gallup N M august 17 to 20 inclusive word is now traveling C grapevine telegraph systems the numerous indian reservations of the west advising the indians that the ceremonial association will give them a f free ree buffalo barbecue the opening evening of the ceremonial august 17 A special message is being delivered to all medicine men that almost pounds of the reproductive organs of both the male and female buffalo will be presented to them by the ceremonial association this so caled caf falo medicine is very scarce because of the shortage of bison no medicine mans paraphernalia is complete without it last november buffalo were butchered in montana upon the t e special orders of the association Asso cation and the meat mealand and required by the medicine men were frozen hard in cold storage protected by dry and regular ice they will be shipped to gallup shortly before the ceremonial until the coming of the white man the indian conserved the buffalo although they roamed the plains in countless thousands killing only those re required wred for his actual uses which included food clothing shelter and ceremonial purposes and the ahe indian used every part of the buff buffalo alo much as meat packers today use all of the pignut the squeal with the arrival of the white man and his more efficient weapons a disastrous inroad began by 1885 buffalo were growing scarce and by 1890 they were practically gone thousands upon thousands being slaughtered for the mere pleasure of killing only a few small protected herds survive today |