Unlike bison hunters who killed the American Buffalo for its hide and left the rest of the animal to rot, the Plains Indians wasted little. They made clothing and shelter from bison hides. They ate bison meat and made weapons and tools from bison bones. The Plains Indians used sinew (muscle) to make bowstrings and boiled the hooves for glue. They used the hair of the bison to make rope and yarn. The Plains Indians made whips out of bison tails. And while the Plains people didn't have supermarkets or shopping malls, they used every part of the bison out of respect for the kill. The Plains Indians, like all other Native Americans, thought waste was rude.