$13,500 to Kill Sacred White Buffalo in Texas—Can This Be True?

[dipsydoodle]

American Indians across the internet are flocking to the website of Texas Hunt Lodge today—and not because they’re planning a hunting trip. No, they’re alarmed by a page on the site dedicated to the White Buffalo Hunt Package, which advertises a chance to kill a white buffalo for $13,500.

White buffaloes are sacred animals to the Lakota Sioux and other Native groups, and there aren’t a lot of the creatures around. When one was born last year in Greenville, Texas, it was an occasion for much rejoicing. An article in the British newspaper Daily Mail extensively covered the naming ceremony of Lightning Medicine Cloud. That report said that “Lightning Medicine Cloud, whose name is also a tribute to a white buffalo born in 1933, named Big Medicine, is thought—in Lakota Sioux tradition—to be the third of its kind ever born.”

It may be that not all white buffaloes are created equal, for there is a herd in Bend, Oregon, that contains 11 white buffaloes. Even so, it’s safe to say there aren’t a lot of them; an article on the herd from 2010 said that experts estimate that there are less than 50 white buffaloes in existence.

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/03/05/13500-to-kill-sacred-white-buffalo-in-texas-can-this-be-true-101355

[Beaverhausen]

1. These canned hunts are ridiculously cruel and cowardly

I can't imagine the kind of person that thinks it's fun to shoot at tame animals.

[Scuba]

6. That's not a hunt, that's just killing....

... they should be ashamed.

[riverwalker]

2. there is a petition

http://www.change.org/petitions/texas-hunt-lodge-stop-the-hunting-of-sacred-white-buffalo

[dipsydoodle]

3. That is much appreciated

and I've cross posted that where I found about this earlier.

[hankthecrank]

4. Thanks for the link signed it nt

[WhatintheWorld]

5. signed

These people that hunt tame animals aren't doing anything for conservation. They just like to kill.

[Scuba]

7. It's an infringement on a rich man's rights if you don't let him hunt....

... poor men.
















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