There were about 60 million buffalo in North America, and he Native Americans hunted them and used them for food clothes, houses, knives, and other things. But when the Europeans arrived, they wanted to take the land for farms or railways. They shot millions of buffalo, and by 1900 the were fewer than a thousand of these animals in all of the USA and fewer than 250,000 Native Americans! The great Sioux chief Sitting Bull fought against the white men who wanted to move his people from their own land to Indian' land further west. He won an important battle at Little Big Horn in 1876 but could not win the war. The Indian wars' ended in 1890 with the Battle of Wounded Knee, when American soldiers killed many Sioux men women and children. After this, Native Americans had to live in special places called reservations Even today, about a third of the 4.4 million Native Americans live on reservations. They are often very poor and a lot of them do not have jobs, so they sometimes drink too much alcohol in order to forget their problems. Some Native Americans build casinos where people can go to win money from cards and other games, and this brings in money for the reservations. Other groups refuse to do this and also do not allow alcohol on their reservations Many of the big reservations are in the Southwest, the home of a different type of Native American. Among the people of the Southwest are the Hopi and the Zuni. They keep sheep, make pots, and also make beautiful jewellery from silver and blue-green stones. Their religion very important to them; their dancing often has a religious meaning, and they make beautiful religious pictures The biggest reservation, where 200,000 Navajo people live, is nearly 65,000 square kilometre The Navajo make