Visitors of the 2025 Canadian Western Agribition got to experience the traditional way of scraping a buffalo hide on Tuesday.

With buffalo populations making a steady recovery across North America, knowledge keeper Wade BigEagle said it was only appropriate to showcase the various ways in which buffalo were used historically.

“It’s really important to be able to connect with the buffalo because of what they bring to us, not just as Indigenous people, but to us as a human race,” BigEagle said.

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He stressed the incredible versatility of the buffa

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