PC/WI: Plains Tribes domesticate the Buffalo

Would it be possible or plausible for the Native American tribes of the Great Plains of North America to domesticate the buffalo at some point prior to the Colombian Exchange?
 
The habit of bison to migrate over vast distances instead of staying in one territory makes them somewhat difficult to manage. Combined with the resources necessary to contain them (they can jump way higher than animal that size has any business jumping) and their gender-segregated, fluid social structure (which makes it harder for humans to dominate them), domesticating bison just isn't worth the effort for people with stone-age technology. Domesticating bison IOTL is not necessarily impossible (the experiment thus far has some promising results) but they cannot be domesticated the way cattle or horses were.

You'd probably need some change in behavior for the bison to get domesticated. At very least, mixed-gender herds with one dominant individual leading the herd would allow humans to control them more easily.
 
Don't who we usually think of as Plains tribes only start after they got horses?

As to the question, I think the answer is for a group of humans to pick a herd and stick with it. Follow them and keep getting closer over generations, kill predators, and selectively cull those with traits like aggressiveness.
 
Don't who we usually think of as Plains tribes only start after they got horses?

As to the question, I think the answer is for a group of humans to pick a herd and stick with it. Follow them and keep getting closer over generations, kill predators, and selectively cull those with traits like aggressiveness.

They existed before. They just used small travois pulled by dogs instead of large travois pulled by horses. They were more sedentary and some were beginning to dabble in agriculture at the time the horse was introduced.
 
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