Nineteen generations ago during a time of famine and hardship, the White Buffalo Calf Woman brought the sacred Pipe along with its moral code and ceremonial teachings to the Lakota, Dakota and ...

Hand, whose Indian name is Looks for Buffalo, and a delegation of Lakota Sioux plan to make a pilgrimage this week from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to Janesville, where they will ...

To many Sioux who traveled to Heider’s farm, Miracle represented the return of the sacred spirit of the White Buffalo Calf Woman who first appeared to the Indians some 2,000 years ago when tribe ...

The rare white buffalo calf, regarded as sacred by the Lakota Sioux, was honored with Native American prayers, religious songs and the solemn smoking of a pipe in a special naming and dedication ...

Lightning Medicine Cloud, a rare white buffalo born in 2011, and his mother were found dead at the Lakota Buffalo Ranch in Texas this week just weeks after the calf's father was fatally struck by ...

Tribes honor the birth of rare white buffalo and reveal its name: ... About 500 people — including representatives of the Colville Tribes in Washington, Lakota and Sioux in the Dakotas, ...

White buffalo are so rare that there’s no real consensus on just how rare they are. ... “Traditionally, when the Sioux found a white buffalo, they killed it.

The mystery surrounding the death of a rare white buffalo and the claim by some Lakota Sioux in Texas that it had been killed by other Native Americans deepened Tuesday. A local sheriff announced ...

On Saturday the sacred rare white buffalo calf would have turned one years old. But instead of celebrating his first birthday, the Lakota Sioux Tribe is now mourning his death.

A rare white buffalo was born earlier this month and a religious ceremony was held to name the "sacred" animal with hundreds gathering to celebrate its birth at Yellowstone in Montana.

Corrections: Compton said the White Buffalo Calf Women’s Society gave emergency shelter to 388 unique people in 2021; this has been corrected. The dateline has also been corrected. ROSEBUD ...

This photo shows a white buffalo calf born on June 4, 2024, in the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park, a spiritually significant event for many Native American tribes. WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont.