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Wis. farm has third rare white buffalo.
Many may not know the significance this has and the small summary they give in the article doesn't do it justice if you don't know much about Native American culture (which I love submerging myself into reading as much as I can about the culture). I was so happy to see this happen again considering I didn't know that Miracle died till I read about it in someones LJ early last yr. I still have the magazine clipping when she was born.
It's no surprise that the farm has had another white buffalo, said Floyd "Looks for Buffalo" Hand, a medicine man in the Oglala Sioux Tribe in Pine Ridge, S.D. He said it was fate that the white buffaloes chose one farm, which will become a focal point for visitors, who make offerings like tobacco and dream catchers in the hopes of earning good fortune and peace.
One of the many things I love about their culture are the names that are passed down from generations. How awesome of a name is that?
"That's destiny," he said. "The message was only choose one person."
That this latest birth is a male doesn't make it any less significant in American Indian prophecies, which say that such an animal will reunite all the races of man and restore balance to the world. The coat on this animal, like Miracle before it, will change from white to black, red and yellow, the colors of the various races of man, before turning brown again, he said.
That is true considering that you don't hear of other farms producing the amount of white buffaloes like this one has. Truthfully though, I don't see this one living long enough for its coat to turn after it's brown. I have different views about it but I'll just keep it to myself cause it requires too much brain power to discuss at the moment.
The only thing that doesn't seem right is:
Women have long been revered in American Indian culture but men now need to take responsibility for their families and the future of the tribe, he said. The birth of this male signifies that, he said.
"It's the time for man's responsibilities," Hand said. "They're not listening to their children, they're not hugging them. They're not telling them what life is about."
I just don't see anything changing in their families just cause this male was born. If it slowly does, then so be it.
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Today's Garfield was funny and the doggy was cute. I see myself in the way Garfield is behaving in the last panel. *lol*
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Many may not know the significance this has and the small summary they give in the article doesn't do it justice if you don't know much about Native American culture (which I love submerging myself into reading as much as I can about the culture). I was so happy to see this happen again considering I didn't know that Miracle died till I read about it in someones LJ early last yr. I still have the magazine clipping when she was born.
It's no surprise that the farm has had another white buffalo, said Floyd "Looks for Buffalo" Hand, a medicine man in the Oglala Sioux Tribe in Pine Ridge, S.D. He said it was fate that the white buffaloes chose one farm, which will become a focal point for visitors, who make offerings like tobacco and dream catchers in the hopes of earning good fortune and peace.
One of the many things I love about their culture are the names that are passed down from generations. How awesome of a name is that?
"That's destiny," he said. "The message was only choose one person."
That this latest birth is a male doesn't make it any less significant in American Indian prophecies, which say that such an animal will reunite all the races of man and restore balance to the world. The coat on this animal, like Miracle before it, will change from white to black, red and yellow, the colors of the various races of man, before turning brown again, he said.
That is true considering that you don't hear of other farms producing the amount of white buffaloes like this one has. Truthfully though, I don't see this one living long enough for its coat to turn after it's brown. I have different views about it but I'll just keep it to myself cause it requires too much brain power to discuss at the moment.
The only thing that doesn't seem right is:
Women have long been revered in American Indian culture but men now need to take responsibility for their families and the future of the tribe, he said. The birth of this male signifies that, he said.
"It's the time for man's responsibilities," Hand said. "They're not listening to their children, they're not hugging them. They're not telling them what life is about."
I just don't see anything changing in their families just cause this male was born. If it slowly does, then so be it.
~*~
Today's Garfield was funny and the doggy was cute. I see myself in the way Garfield is behaving in the last panel. *lol*
~*~
The winners for the
renji_rukia Summer Fun contest are finally announced here.