Rare Baby White Buffalo, 'Lightning Medicine Cloud,' Considered Sacred

GREENVILLE, Texas — A rare white buffalo calf regarded as sacred by Lakota Sioux tradition has officially been named at a ceremony drawing about 2,000 people to a northeast Texas ranch.

The crowd gathered Wednesday in Greenville in honor of the calf called Lightning Medicine Cloud.

Herd owner Arby Little Soldier says the calf was born May 12 during a thunderstorm. The name is also a tribute to the first known white buffalo in Texas born in 1933.

Lakota Sioux tradition holds that Whope (HOH'-pah), the goddess of peace, once appeared in the form of a white buffalo calf. Little Soldier says the buffalo represents hope for all nations and races.

Greenville is about 50 miles northeast of Dallas.

Comments

[Bill Cenne]

12:48 AM on 07/02/2011

I don't think you can breed animals to guarantee an albino. Nice name for it though. I'll call it "Paleface".

[Eunice Richardson]

07:01 PM on 07/01/2011

Thanks for news other than violence.

[DeathSquad]

12:26 PM on 06/30/2011

Not any weirder than believing a man came back to life after being dead for 3 days via Roman execution.

[Sheldon archer]

06:29 AM on 06/30/2011

Like any believers in a Bid Daddy in the sky, they willl view any ususual occurance as a "Sign." I guess a white buffalo is more interesting than a face on a piece of toast.

[Deep Thinking Man]

03:00 AM on 06/30/2011

TT,
since the White Buffalo is Sacred to the Lakota Nation, it will be bred to help preserve it's bloodline. however, it will take generations to produce another white off-spring. a Sacred animal cannot be mass-produced, it must come as Creator wills it to come.
i've included these links. one is of this Buffalo Calf, ans the other is the legend of the Buffalo Calf Woman.

http://youtu.be/LkDbe3iNyPg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Buffalo_Calf_Woman

HHUA,

i'm sure that you understand Native American Beliefs. all Nations beliefs were/are simular, but our Traditions are different. i explain this because i am Cherokee and i know that i can share some knowledge with you. we Natives respect each other, and we are Spiritual, and always very close to our Creator. we know that, talking with Creator, peace, understanding of all people, and knowledge will come.

i hope these links will help you !!!!!

[desertdreamer]

07:59 AM on 06/30/2011

Fanned and thanks for posting this information to further understanding. Mitakuye Oaysin.

[Deep Thinking Man]

05:00 PM on 06/30/2011

DD,
thank you my friend !!!!!!...many "white" people will never understand Native American Beliefs, simply because they don't want/care to...anyway...WADO for your kind words !!!!!!

you have been fanned my friend !!!!!!!

[desertdreamer]

08:22 PM on 06/30/2011

Pilamaye, friend! Altho I am white, my heart/spirit are deeply rooted in Lakota ways and spiritual practices. I am so blessed to be instructed in traditional ways by good people who work with a Lakota Medicine Man. It is so true and unfortunate that many whites do not want to understand the Native American ways. Perhaps that will change. My tioshpeye (extended family) is comprised of many different people -- a rainbow — who hold true to Native ways.

I am so happy to connect with you! Thank you for the fan. Let us stay connected as we move thru these most incredible times that the elders of many traditions have spoken of. It is no mistake that we have found our way to one another. Sending you many blessings! Mitakuye Oaysin!!

[tattytiara]

02:14 AM on 06/30/2011

Sacred, and owned as part of a herd. Makes me wonder if people are going to try preserving it's bloodline and promoting the trait, and if they succeed, well, can you mass produce a sacred animal?

[DeathSquad]

12:25 PM on 06/30/2011

Ask the Hindus...

[tattytiara]

12:47 PM on 06/30/2011

Haha yeah, but I'm thinking regular colored cows were already mass produced by nature before Hindus got hold of them, and I'm pretty sure this bison calf's going to have a decidedly more prestigious status than most if not all of the cows in India.

That, or perhaps we are on course to have white buffaloes roaming our garbage dumps and gutters someday.

[Max Shelby]

12:47 AM on 06/30/2011

Too cool....

[jhnnxn]

08:42 PM on 06/29/2011

The other white meat? Since sacred cows make great hamburgers, and bison make better hamburgers than cows, that little fella would probably make some amazing burgers. Certainly a better use of the resource than worshiping it.

[Stephen G Ford]

09:12 PM on 06/29/2011

Yes... but by your reasoning... since there are a LOT MORE PEOPLE available as a RESOURCE... WASTE NOT... WANT NOT! TROLLS have ONE USE... KINDLING! remove the HEAD and set it on FIRE!

[jhnnxn]

09:29 PM on 06/29/2011

That's not my reasoning, it's you attempting to apply what you call reasoning to what I posted. You did not succeed, but the caps look really cool. Please continue to overuse them.

[Stephen G Ford]

09:01 PM on 06/30/2011

NO... you came on a thread about a WHITE BUFFALO being born to tell us how you would COOK HIM and EAT HIM! But you WEREN'T trying to offend anyone! GOTCHA! If being a comedian is your GOAL... you REALLY need to find another line of work!

[HHUA]

07:07 PM on 06/29/2011

"Little Soldier says the buffalo represents hope for all nations and races."

Would that were the case... Let's "hope" he's right.

[Stephen G Ford]

09:15 PM on 06/29/2011

Nope... it's EASIER for everybody to just keep blaming the (INSERT LATEST BOOGIE MAN) lessee... we have "LIBRUL-SOCIALIST-MUSLIMS-LEFT HANDED SCUBA DIVING DENTISTS" You know... whatever floats their BOAT... as long as they don't have to take responsibility for their OWN stupidity!

[jhnnxn]

09:30 PM on 06/29/2011

You're the only one throwing blame around tis thread that I can see. It missed of course....