In a Blackfoot hunting story, Old Man creates mankind out of clay blowing life into the human forms. "They asked him, 'What are we to eat?' He made many images of clay in the form of buffalo.

The Cree, the Ojibways, the Saulteus, the Assiniboines and the Blackfoot lived largely nomadic lives, hunting the vast buffalo herds across the land. By the mid-1800s, times began to change.