White Buffalo born in Kentucky

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http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050607/NEWS01/506070407&SearchID=73210436247790

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1. Wow! How cool!

As the story goes, Lakota Sioux rituals and beliefs were brought to the tribe by a spiritual being known as the White Buffalo Calf Woman, Pickering said.

A white buffalo calf is interpreted as the sacred reincarnation of the woman, he said. Historically, the white buffalo is "probably about the most spiritual being on the prairie," he said.

Pickering estimated the incidence of white buffalo births at about 16 per million.

He said there are three reasons white calves sometimes appear: they can be albinos, they can be the result of crossbreeding with white cows, or they may be temporarily white and turn dark by their first winter.

The calf is not an albino, said Julie Allen, noting that its eyes are brown, not pink.

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I consider this to be a very good sign! :toast: :D

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2. and she's a girl

which makes more sense to me...given the legend is told by White Buffalo Woman. Female energy seems more appropriate to me...its gentleness, its hope for the clan, its innocence compels us to protect it and it has the potential of giving forth life.