Anonymous ID: 92c92e June 14, 2024, 2:34 a.m. No.21020726   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>21020699

mmm

he knew a lot of things… feels like rumblings for decades… the acceleration was when he met GEORGE

 

that marriage was over… see the way she was stoleted in her words and his kiss was seemly affectionate but clearly wasn't

no kiss for the kid

 

so he was merely going through the motions…

Anonymous ID: 92c92e June 14, 2024, 3:04 a.m. No.21020762   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0768

>>21020714

Watching the water

Watching the coast

Suddenly I know

What I want the most

And I want to tell you

Still I hold back

I need some time

Get my life on track

I know that look on your face

But there's something lucky about this place

And there's something good coming

For you and me

Something good coming

There has to be

And I'm thinking about mama

And about the kids

And the way we lived

And the things we did

As she never had a chance

Never caught a break

And how we paid

For our big mistakes

I know so well the look on your face

And there's something lucky about this place

There's something good coming just over the hill

There's something good coming I know it will

And I'm in for the long run

Wherever it goes

Riding the river

Wherever it goes

And I'm an honest man

Work's all I know

You take that away

Don't know where to go

And I know that look that's on your face

There's something lucky about this place

There's something good coming

For you and me

Something good coming

There has to be

Anonymous ID: 92c92e June 14, 2024, 3:14 a.m. No.21020771   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0772 >>0774 >>0799

LAKOTA SIOUX

==Sioux Celebrate Birth of Rare White Buffalo

Event holds deep significance for Lakota Sioux==

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 12, 2024 3:31 PM CDT

A rare white buffalo calf, reportedly born in Yellowstone National Park's Lamar Valley, is shown on June 4, 2024, in Wyoming. (Erin Braaten/Dancing Aspens Photography via AP)

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Lakota Sioux leaders are planning to celebrate a rare event with deep significance: the birth of a white buffalo. Photographer Erin Braaten spotted the calf during a visit to Yellowstone National Park last week, the Guardian reports. A Lakota prophecy holds that the birth of a white buffalo signals better times ahead, though it is also seen as a warning to do more to protect the Earth and its creatures, reports the AP. "The birth of this calf is both a blessing and warning. We must do more," says Lakota spiritual leader Chief Arvol Looking Horse.

 

In a tradition that goes back centuries, Looking Horse is the 19th keeper of the sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe and Bundle. He says that according to Lakota legend, White Buffalo Calf Woman appeared during hard times 2,000 years ago and gave a pipe and bundle to a member of the tribe, saying the pipe could summon buffalo to feed the tribe, the AP reports. He says she turned into a white buffalo calf as she left and said, "Some day when the times are hard again, I shall return and stand upon the earth as a white buffalo calf, black nose, black eyes, black hooves."

 

An essay on the National Park Service website has more on the legend, noting that a white buffalo calf "is the most sacred living thing" on Earth for Native Americans. Braaten tells KRTV that she photographed the calf moments after it was born. "I couldn't believe what I was seeing," she says. "It was so surreal. I just knew it was something special and one of the coolest things I've ever photographed." Looking Horse says a naming ceremony for the calf has been held. An event to celebrate the birth will be held later this month at the Buffalo Field Campaign headquarters in West Yellowstone. (More Lakota Sioux stories.)

 

https://www.newser.com/story/351589/sioux-celebrate-birth-of-rare-white-buffalo.html

Anonymous ID: 92c92e June 14, 2024, 3:16 a.m. No.21020775   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0776 >>0944

Reported birth of rare white buffalo calf in Yellowstone park fulfills Lakota prophecy

 

The reported birth of a rare white buffalo calf in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times

 

HELENA, Mont. – The reported birth of a rare white buffalo in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times, according to members of the American Indian tribe who cautioned that it’s also a signal that more must be done to protect the earth and its animals.

 

“The birth of this calf is both a blessing and warning. We must do more,” said Chief Arvol Looking Horse, the spiritual leader of the Lakota, Dakota and the Nakota Oyate in South Dakota, and the 19th keeper of the sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe and Bundle.

 

The birth of the sacred calf comes as after a severe winter in 2023 drove thousands of Yellowstone buffalo, also known as bison, to lower elevations. More than 1,500 were killed, sent to slaughter or transferred to tribes seeking to reclaim stewardship over an animal their ancestors lived alongside for millennia.

 

Erin Braaten of Kalispell took several photos of the calf shortly after it was born on June 4 in the Lamar Valley in the northeastern corner of the park.

 

Her family was visiting the park when she spotted “something really white” among a herd of bison across the Lamar River.

 

Traffic ended up stopping while bison crossed the road, so Braaten stuck her camera out the window to take a closer look with her telephoto lens.

 

“I look and it's this white bison calf. And I was just totally, totally floored,” she said.

 

After the bison cleared the roadway, the Braatens turned their vehicle around and found a spot to park. They watched the calf and its mother for 30 to 45 minutes.

 

“And then she kind of led it through the willows there,” Braaten said. Although Braaten came back each of the next two days, she didn't see the white calf again.

 

For the Lakota, the birth of a white buffalo calf with a black nose, eyes and hooves is akin to the second coming of Jesus Christ, Looking Horse said.

 

Lakota legend says about 2,000 years ago — when nothing was good, food was running out and bison were disappearing — White Buffalo Calf Woman appeared, presented a bowl pipe and a bundle to a tribal member, taught them how to pray and said that the pipe could be used to bring buffalo to the area for food. As she left, she turned into a white buffalo calf.

 

“And some day when the times are hard again,” Looking Horse said in relating the legend, “I shall return and stand upon the earth as a white buffalo calf, black nose, black eyes, black hooves.”

 

A similar white buffalo calf was born in Wisconsin in 1994 and was named Miracle, he said.

 

Troy Heinert, the executive director of the South Dakota-based InterTribal Buffalo Council, said the calf in Braaten's photos looks like a true white buffalo because it has a black nose, black hooves and dark eyes.

Anonymous ID: 92c92e June 14, 2024, 3:17 a.m. No.21020776   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0944

>>21020775

“From the pictures I've seen, that calf seems to have those traits,” said Heinert, who is Lakota. An albino buffalo would have pink eyes.

 

A naming ceremony has been held for the Yellowstone calf, Looking Horse said, though he declined to reveal the name. A ceremony celebrating the calf's birth is set for June 26 at the Buffalo Field Campaign headquarters in West Yellowstone.

 

Other tribes also revere white buffalo.

 

“Many tribes have their own story of why the white buffalo is so important,” Heinert said. “All stories go back to them being very sacred.”

 

Heinert and several members of the Buffalo Field Campaign say they've never heard of a white buffalo being born in Yellowstone, which has wild herds. Park officials had not seen the buffalo yet and could not confirm its birth in the park, and they have no record of a white buffalo being born in the park previously.

 

Jim Matheson, executive director of the National Bison Association, could not quantify how rare the calf is.

 

“To my knowledge, no one’s ever tracked the occurrence of white buffalo being born throughout history. So I’m not sure how we can make a determination how often it occurs.”

 

Besides herds of the animals on public lands or overseen by conservation groups, about 80 tribes across the U.S. have more than 20,000 bison, a figure that’s been growing in recent years.

 

In Yellowstone and the surrounding area, the killing or removal of large numbers of bison happens almost every winter, under an agreement between federal and Montana agencies that has limited the size of the park’s herds to about 5,000 animals. Yellowstone officials last week proposed a slightly larger population of up to 6,000 bison, with a final decision expected next month.

 

But ranchers in Montana have long opposed increasing the Yellowstone herds or transferring the animals to tribes. Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte has said he would not support any management plan with a population target greater than 3,000 Yellowstone bison.

 

Heinert sees the calf's birth as a reminder “that we need to live in a good way and treat others with respect.”

 

“I hope that calf is safe and gonna live its best life in Yellowstone National Park, exactly where it was designed to be,” Heinert said.

 

 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/reported-birth-rare-white-buffalo-calf-yellowstone-park-111031941