Did Comanche Hunt Buffalo?

They subsisted on the great bison herds of the Plains. The Comanche hunted the bison of the Great Plains for food and skins.

Why did the Comanche hunt buffalo?

The buffalo played an important role in the lives of nomadic Texas Plains Indians, especially the Comanche and Kiowa. More than a hundred year before commercial buffalo hunters began killing the Plains buffalo for profit, Plains Indians had hunted buffalo for their main source of food, clothing and housing.

What did the Comanche do with buffalo?

Comanche men usually hunted the buffalo by driving them off cliffs or stalking them with bow and arrow. As they acquired horses, the Comanche tribe began to pursue the buffalo herds for communal hunts, moving their villages often as the buffalo migrated.