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Rare white buffalo born at Yellowstone prompts Lakota Sioux celebration
The Guardian uK ^ | 12 Jun 2024 | Oliver Milman

Posted on 06/12/2024 7:44:31 PM PDT by blueplum

A rare white buffalo has been born in Yellowstone national park, with the arrival prompting local Lakota Sioux leaders to plan a special celebration, with the calf representing a sign of hope and the need to look after the planet.

The white calf was reportedly spotted shortly after its birth, on Tuesday last week, by park visitor Erin Braaten, a photographer. She took several shots of the wobbly baby ...

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: bison; buffalo; sioux; whitebuffalo; yellowstone
although rare for Yellowstone, white buffalo nowadays are not that rare. True Albino buffalo occur at an estimated rate of 1 in 10 million, but most all modern white buffalo are dark-eyed white as a result of a cow gene, generally from the Charcolais breed of cattle. The below article notes ".. herds of exclusively white bison with dark eyes can be found in Ohio, Oregon, Texas and Saskatchewan." The Sioux and other tribes view the birth of a white buffalo as a signal their prayers have been answered and good times are coming . Irregardless, it's still a cute little critter.

What the White Buffalo Calf tells us about Indigenous history


1 posted on 06/12/2024 7:44:31 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

You beat me to my point. White Buffalo are no longer all that rare, at least not in the United States. Maybe there are enough White Buffalo around today, so they can randomly start breeding, and creating more ‘shocking events’ of nature.


2 posted on 06/12/2024 7:49:52 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: blueplum

Heal the Earth? Go to any Indian Reservation that does not have a casino and you will see how much they value the Earth.


3 posted on 06/12/2024 7:59:14 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: lee martell; blueplum
Uncle Ted has a few words on this matter.


4 posted on 06/12/2024 8:00:18 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: blueplum

They turn brown in about a month.


5 posted on 06/12/2024 8:01:52 PM PDT by MNnice
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To: DoodleBob

Ted has competiton now, in the ICON department.
Ever heard of this fellow named Jacob Chansley?
Aka- Q-Anon/ Shaman.

Jacob wears a pretty decent horned hat with frontier hide on it.


6 posted on 06/12/2024 8:05:13 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: blueplum

the bison is undergoing reeducation as we speak- it will no longer display it’s white privilege in public


7 posted on 06/12/2024 8:05:54 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: blueplum

Some of those Sioux equate the white buffalo w/ Jesus. I prefer the real Jesus; He alone can save from sin.


8 posted on 06/12/2024 8:27:41 PM PDT by Migraine ( )
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To: blueplum
IMG-8368 Has anybody consulted Elizabeth Warren? Did they do DNA on this buffalo yet? Can’t be too careful about these fake white buffalo’s.
9 posted on 06/12/2024 8:27:56 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: blueplum
A rare white buffalo has been born in Yellowstone national park,

Usually I go for medium rare.

10 posted on 06/12/2024 8:47:44 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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Did Taylor Sheridan arrange for this to happen to somehow promote the reboot of his “Yellowstone” TV series?


11 posted on 06/12/2024 8:57:08 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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12 posted on 06/12/2024 9:49:17 PM PDT by algore
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To: DoodleBob

I knew I could count on you to drop the Nuge. Double live Gonzo version is my favorite.


13 posted on 06/12/2024 10:07:40 PM PDT by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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To: DoodleBob

I don’t always listen to GWB, but when I do, so do the neighbors.


14 posted on 06/13/2024 2:17:43 AM PDT by waterhill (I Believe! Eph. 5:11)
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To: blueplum

Somewhere Ted Nugent smiles!


15 posted on 06/13/2024 6:19:38 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: blueplum

This brings to mind an episode of the 80s sitcom “Newhart.” The townspeople were excited because there had been a sighting of “The Great White Elk.” Local legend held that it meant good luck for everyone during the coming year - until Bob accidently ran it over.


16 posted on 06/13/2024 6:24:30 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: blueplum

I remember a White Buffalo born a a few years back. Caused quite a stir among the tribes till someone shot it dead.


17 posted on 06/13/2024 6:26:27 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: blueplum
The white calf was reportedly spotted shortly after its birth

Did the spots fade out later?

18 posted on 06/13/2024 8:33:03 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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Back in the late 1950s, a “White Buffalo” calf was born at the Moise National Bison Range near St. Ignatius, MT. I recall a drive up the hill from the whistle-stop train station (Ravalli) one afternoon, and Dad pulled the Chevy over and we all got out and gawked at it. It was frisking around a few hundred feet up the hill. Only recall seeing it a few more times. And one of Dad’s friends, an old tribal guy, told us it was ‘big medicine’. He was a bit of jokester, but he was quite serious when he said that.


19 posted on 06/13/2024 6:36:10 PM PDT by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: blueplum

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rare-white-buffalo-calf-has-disappeared/ar-BB1pdtru


20 posted on 07/02/2024 11:40:06 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (" Life is hard!" Tom Brady)
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