This is awful: Rare white buffalo calf killed in North Texas

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

I saw this over in GD ( http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002646288 ) and thought I would bring it here.

Rare white buffalo calf killed in North Texas

(05-04) 14:08 PDT Greenville, Texas (AP) --

Authorities are investigating the death of a rare white buffalo on a North Texas ranch just days shy of its first birthday.

Lakota Ranch owner Arby Little Soldier says he found the buffalo, named Lightning Medicine Cloud, dead Monday. The buffalo's mother was found dead the next day.

Last year, thousands attended a naming ceremony to celebrate the calf's May 12 birth.

According to Lakota Sioux lore, the goddess of peace once appeared in the form of a white buffalo calf.

Arby Little Soldier says the calf "was the hope of all nations." He said a birthday celebration planned this month will be a memorial instead.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/05/04/national/a140859D03.DTL

I remember hearing about the birth and know that it brought many people hope. While I hope that the passing was natural and peaceful, I have to admit that I fear it wasn't either natural or peaceful. If it was done by some sub-humans, I want to know if they sought out the white buffalo knowing what it meant to people, or if they were just out to get the ranchers, or if they were just being a-holes.

[Behind the Aegis]

1. It is rather ghastly.

I really don't understand people sometimes.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

2. Just found this: Lightning Medicine Cloud, Sacred White Buffalo, Killed and Skinned

UPDATE: The owners of the Lakota Ranch have released the following statement to Indian Country Today Media Network (the original news report follows it):

To my fellow Native Brothers and Sisters in Indian Country,

Lightning Medicine Cloud, a true spiritual blessing was born at the Lakota Ranch on May 12, 2011. He now has joined his earth father and our heavenly father, and Lightning’s mother, Buffalo Woman, also went on to join her son one day after Lightning left the earth.

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Read More:

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/04/lightning-medicine-cloud-sacred-white-buffalo-killed-and-skinned-111453

[icymist]

4. What is your point in posting this here?

The white buffalo that was in the above postings was a sacred animal to native pagan traditions. You seem to be mocking the idea that we are sadden and outraged by its' demise in such a way. Please let us know if I am wrong about your intent. Thank you, icymist

[eilen]

5. Barbarians

We get similar killings of swan eggs and swans at a local pond. They are usually perpetrated by emotionally stunted teenage boys with firearms.