Lakota legend says about 2,000 years ago — when nothing was good, food was running out and bison were disappearing — a white buffalo calf woman appeared. She presented a bowl pipe and a bundle ...

“They are essentially ecologically extinct.” The story of the white buffalo calf in Lakota culture is that a holy woman appeared to them during a time of famine, per the NPS. She brought a ...

Eyewitnesses at the scene told the outlet that the Iowa woman got off the motorcycle along Iron Mountain Road around 6:40 p.m. and began to approach a buffalo calf when an adult bison came ...

and the 19th keeper of the sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe and Bundle. ''The thing is, we all know that it was born and it's like a miracle to us,'' Looking Horse said. The creature's birth ...

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 ...