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Why did some American Indians depend on buffalo for food while others relied on fish?

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because they couldn’t fish
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Some depended on fish because they must have lived near bodies of water, like the coastal region. Others depended on buffalo because they didn’t have fish available, nor big bodies of water. It all depends in the region they lived in, like the coast or the plains.
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