Are the ranchers that owned them Indian too?
Yes
On May 12th, in the middle of a thunderstorm something remarkable happened on Arby Little Soldier’s ranch in Texas - the birth of a white buffalo,an animal rich in the lore of Native Americans and sacred to many tribes.
White buffalo are extremely rare. To be considered sacred, Little Soldier says, there are certain markings.
Little Soldier would like to name the calf Lightning Medicine Cloud, but that must wait until tribal leaders from around the country gather at his ranch to determine what prophecy the white buffalo brings.
Little Soldier grew up on a reservation in North Dakota. His great grandfather he says was the son of the legendary chief Sitting Bull.
The Little Soldiers have a herd of 1600 bison in North Dakota, selling meat and byproducts, keeping just a small show herd here.
The last true white buffalo, they believe, was born in 1994 in Wisconsin — a female named Miracle.