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.
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
I’m white and was born in Buffalo.
Lot’s of Cherokee gals, but I won’t go into that here.
White Meat
I know a white English Literature Professor in Buffalo.
Nothin wild about him. Houndstooth jacket with leather elbow patchs sort of a fellow.
Last White Buffalo 1933? Uh Oh. Bad Omen.
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.
I'm so sorry...LOL, lived there most of my life...
“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.
Miss the food but glad we left.
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...
Awwwwww.Darling.
he’s precious
Mean son of a gun when it grows up
A White Buffalo haunts Charles Bronson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOIaQpFT9a8&feature=related
The White Buffalo foreshadows the demise of the White Man. Our own government has made this come true!
Isn’t there some Native American Prophecy about the birth of a white buffalo?
“White man come, kill our women, rape our buffalo.”
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.
. . . . . .and I'd wager that's a partial list.
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