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PDF“It was told that next time there is
chaos and disparity,
she would return again.
She said she would return as
a White Buffalo Calf.
Some believe she already has.”
Words of Chief Arvol Looking Horse,
19th Generation Keeper of the
Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
of the Lakota Nation
There were once perhaps 40 million bison roaming wild in the United States. They were hunted to near extinction and have had something of a resurgence both because of conservation efforts in the West and commercial demand; there are now about 500,000 in the country.
Less than a month before this bison was born, the National Bison Legacy Act was introduced in the Senate. The act would designate the American bison as the “National Mammal of the United States.” (There has never been a national mammal.) It has 15 co-sponsors, including the two senators from Connecticut, and an upbeat Web site, votebison.org, though its prospects for passage are unclear.
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