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When Buffalo Ran

"Seventy years ago, when some of the events here recounted took place, Indians were Indians, and the plains were the plains indeed.
In such surroundings the boy Wikis was born and grew up. The people that he knew well were those of his own camp. Once a year perhaps, for a few weeks, he saw the larger population of a great camp, but for the most part half a dozen families of the tribe, with the buffalo, the deer, the wolves, and the smaller animals and birds, were the companions with whom he lived and from whom he learned life's lessons.

The incidents of this simple story are true." - Summary by Adapted from the Preface (2 hr 51 min)

Chapters

Introduction: The Plains Country

2:58

Attack on the Camp

12:21

Standing Alone

8:10

The Way to Live

12:03

Lessons of the Prairie

15:38

On a Buffalo Horse

19:01

In the Medicine Circle

13:47

Among Enemy Lodges

18:19

A Grown Man

8:38

A Sacrifice

14:10

A Warrior Ready to Die

16:08

A Lie That Came True

20:22

My Marriage

10:11