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Posted on 07/27/2012 4:46:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Hundreds of Native Americans are expected to gather Saturday at a former dairy farm in Goshen, Conn., to hold a sacred naming ceremony for what they hope is a rare white buffalo.
Mark Herz from NPR member station WSHU catches up with the story for All Things Considered in a report due to air later today. As he says, the calf's DNA still needs to be tested to confirm that he truly is a white buffalo — "or bison, as they are more properly known." But, "test results or no," many Native Americans are planning to be there tomorrow.
To be part of such an event "brings so much happiness to us because of the stories of the white buffalo calf that [were] passed down to us for generations," Marian White Mouse, of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, tells Mark.
A white buffalo calf, says Jace DeCory, a Lakota who's also from South Dakota, "is a sign of rebirth. It's a good omen. We feel good when white bison are born, because it reaffirms our belief that things will be better for our nation and for our people."
AP/YouTube A July 19 Associated Press video report on the Connecticut calf. As The New York Times reported earlier this month, farmer Peter Fay — who "began raising bison [in Goshen] as a hobby four years ago" — says "he carefully researched the bloodlines of the calf's mother and father, and he is confident the animal is all bison without any intermingling with cattle."
We wish we had better news to report concerning the white buffalo calf we posted about in May and the search for his killer. Lightning Medicine Cloud, which was living on a ranch near Greenville, Texas, was killed just shy of his first birthday.
KETR at Texas A&M University-Commerce reports that leaders of the Lakota Nation believe the crime "was committed by at least seven people of Native American tribes other than Lakota." And they're warning that if authorities don't arrest someone soon they may, in the words of ranch owner Little Soldier, "bring those people [suspects] and give them to them right there on the courthouse steps if we have to."
There's also sad news this week from Minnesota of the death of a calf born on July 4 who also was thought to have been a white buffalo.
I know a guy who raises buffalo here in Michigan. He had a white one some years ago and says if it happens again, he’s keeping it out of sight and keeping his mouth shut about it.
MMMMMM buffaloe veal. Aboriginals be damned
A white buffalo (bison) was born in southern Wisconsin (Walworth county,I believe) about 25-30 years ago. Haven’t heard whether it is still living, or what became of it.
KETR at Texas A&M University-Commerce reports that leaders of the Lakota Nation believe the crime "was committed by at least seven people of Native American tribes other than Lakota." And they're warning that if authorities don't arrest someone soon they may, in the words of ranch owner Little Soldier, "bring those people [suspects] and give them to them right there on the courthouse steps if we have to."
There should be such outrage and warnings over the murders of millions of innocent human babies in the womb.
This is weird. I just bought 15 pounds of buffalo meat this morning. Not sure, but does white buffalo meat taste different than the dark?
If it’s a fake white buffalo, they could name it Chlor-Ox...
The name of the buffalo should be LIZ WARREN; Chief SPREWING BULL.
My few oddball, pagan American Indians make headlines. The rest of us don’t.
...my American Indian cousins, that is.
It seems that primitive cultures don’t understand the simple fact of albinoism in mammals. Africans and Indians need to be instructed is some elementary science.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34182250/ns/world_news-africa/t/albinos-east-africa-fear-lives-after-killings/#.UBNADFKLOPA
That has to be the funniest thing I ever heard!!
The secret Indian name will be.......”Honky That Brings Much Wampum” or “Whitey” for short.
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