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Rare white buffalo calf named in special ceremony
star-telegram.com ^ | Jun. 29, 2011 | LINDA STEWART BALL

Posted on 06/29/2011 6:09:27 PM PDT by NYTexan

GREENVILLE, Texas — Thousands of people came from miles around Wednesday to see and honor a legend in the flesh - the white buffalo born in a thunderstorm on a northeast Texas ranch.

The rare white buffalo calf, regarded as sacred by Lakota Sioux tradition, was honored with Native American prayers, religious songs and the solemn smoking of a pipe in a special naming and dedication ceremony at the Lakota Ranch in Greenville, about 50 miles northeast of Dallas.

Flag-flying patriotism, a steady Native American drum beat and scorching heat provided the backdrop for the spiritual event that drew about 2,000.

The calf was named Lightning Medicine Cloud - a reference to the thunderstorm that marked the arrival of his birth as well as a tribute to a white buffalo born in 1933 named Big Medicine.

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TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: albino; bison; buffalo
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To: NYTexan

I’m white and was born in Buffalo.


21 posted on 06/29/2011 6:45:44 PM PDT by Pylon (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: Revolting cat!

Lot’s of Cherokee gals, but I won’t go into that here.


22 posted on 06/29/2011 6:47:38 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: NYTexan

White Meat


23 posted on 06/29/2011 6:48:01 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!)
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To: Pylon

I know a white English Literature Professor in Buffalo.
Nothin wild about him. Houndstooth jacket with leather elbow patchs sort of a fellow.


24 posted on 06/29/2011 6:53:06 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: NYTexan

Last White Buffalo 1933? Uh Oh. Bad Omen.


25 posted on 06/29/2011 6:54:22 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Socialism...Easier said than done.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

We have a friend who lives in Whitewater. She was biking one day and as she was going up a hill two bikers came past and shouted at her; “Look out for the buffalo!” She said she was hurt...she didn’t think she weighed that much!

As she topped the hill, she came upon a buffalo in the middle of the road. She looked at the buffalo, it looked at her. A guy came up on a three wheeler and herded it back to its field.


26 posted on 06/29/2011 6:55:10 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Pylon
I’m white and was born in Buffalo.

I'm so sorry...LOL, lived there most of my life...

27 posted on 06/29/2011 6:56:18 PM PDT by NYTexan
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To: GladesGuru

“How anyone can find mystic meaning in a color variation of a commercialized bovine, complete with ear tag, is beyond my comprehension.”

There are similar traditions around the world - herds of white deer kept on lairds’ estates in Scotland, the literal origins of the proverbial white elephant belonging to rajas in India, other examples could probably be found.


28 posted on 06/29/2011 6:59:54 PM PDT by OldNewYork
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To: NYTexan
I want one!
29 posted on 06/29/2011 7:06:55 PM PDT by Baynative (Truth is treason in an empire of lies)
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To: NYTexan
I'm so sorry...LOL, lived there most of my life...

Miss the food but glad we left.

30 posted on 06/29/2011 7:07:16 PM PDT by Pylon (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: Pylon

Me too!

But don’t get me started on the food missed...

Beef on weck
Friday Fish Frys
Chivetta’s chicken dinners
The best pizza in the world
Really big chicken wings
Potato pancakes
Artones’ steak subs...


31 posted on 06/29/2011 7:13:48 PM PDT by NYTexan
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To: visualops

Awwwwww.Darling.


32 posted on 06/29/2011 7:14:49 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (where is the Great Santini when we need him??)
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To: visualops

he’s precious


33 posted on 06/29/2011 7:27:29 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: NYTexan

Mean son of a gun when it grows up

A White Buffalo haunts Charles Bronson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOIaQpFT9a8&feature=related


34 posted on 06/29/2011 7:29:14 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: NYTexan

The White Buffalo foreshadows the demise of the White Man. Our own government has made this come true!


35 posted on 06/29/2011 7:32:44 PM PDT by Tuketu (Socialize the Legal System. Then we are all equal before the law.)
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To: NYTexan

Isn’t there some Native American Prophecy about the birth of a white buffalo?


36 posted on 06/29/2011 7:33:47 PM PDT by NELSON111
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To: Tuketu

“White man come, kill our women, rape our buffalo.”


37 posted on 06/29/2011 7:37:33 PM PDT by Tuketu (Socialize the Legal System. Then we are all equal before the law.)
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To: NYTexan
Where are their spicy wings? I thought all buffalo had spicy wings.
38 posted on 06/29/2011 7:37:37 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! Tea Party extremism is a badge of honor.)
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To: NELSON111

The white buffalo is to mark the beginning of a great balance coming to the world, peace, harmony, nature, spirituality, ironic when you look at the news. If my half Indian granny were alive she’d say it meant that farmer will make a little more off that one than the others.


39 posted on 06/29/2011 7:57:33 PM PDT by enduserindy (Conservative Dead Head)
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To: screaminsunshine
Last White Buffalo 1933? . . . . .

Not

. . . . . .and I'd wager that's a partial list.

40 posted on 06/29/2011 8:03:57 PM PDT by skeptoid (The road to serfdom is being paved by RINOs, and Lisa Murkowski is their mascot.)
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