In an Okanagan tale, Coyote received a wife from one of these creatures after he peed on thecorpse of that one, and later, Coyote was unable to defecate because he killed that wife, who was alsoone of these creatures and prevented them from appearing
In an Okanagan tale, Coyote received a wife from one of these creatures after he peed on thecorpse of that one, and later, Coyote was unable to defecate because he killed that wife, who was alsoone of these creatures and prevented them from appearing further west. In a Pawnee story, Tirawaplaced one of these in the northwest to hold back the great flood, but the world will be destroyedwhen it loses all of its hair. In an Assiniboine tale, Iktomi steals wives from a group of these creatures,and a Lakota myth tells how a (*) white one of these creatures provided the ceremonial pipe. Inanother Lakota tale, Iktomi tricked humanity into coming to the surface by hunting these creatures, andthe Moon provided huge herds of these animals for starving people in a Pawnee story. For 10 points,name this large mammal, pivotal to the life on the Great Plains. 
In an Okanagan tale, Coyote received a wife from one of these creatures after he peed on thecorpse of that one, and later, Coyote was unable to defecate because he killed that wife, who was alsoone of these creatures and prevented them from appearing further west.
American Buffalo [or Bison]