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Tribes honor the birth of a rare white buffalo calf in Yellowstone and reveal its name: Wakan Gli

— In a gathering near a picturesque lake outside Yellowstone National Park, hundreds of people cheered Wednesday as a Native American leader spoke the name revealed on a painted hide for a rare white buffalo that was born in the park earlier this month: Wakan Gli, which means “Return Sacred” in Lakota. Earlier this month, the white buffalo calf was …

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Move over grizzlies and wolves: Yellowstone visitors hope to catch a glimpse of rare white buffalo

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. “It’s white and it’s small.” Grizzly bears and wolves are usually the star attractions for wildlife watchers in Yellowstone but this spring, a tiny and exceedingly rare white buffalo calf has stolen the show. White buffalo — also known as bison — are held sacred by many Native Americans who greeted news of the birth of …

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WASHINGTON — Photos of a white bison calf in Yellowstone National Park have generated excitement as well as questions: How does that happen? Park officials said this week that they hadn’t yet spotted a white calf in the sprawling park in Wyoming and Montana, home to about 5,000 bison, also called American buffalo. The Yellowstone calf, with its black nose …

Warning as birth of rare white buffalo calf in Yellowstone park fulfills ancient prophecy

Reported Birth Of Rare White Buffalo Calf Fulfills Prophecy

A rare white buffalo calf, reportedly born in Yellowstone National Park's Lamar Valley, may fulfill a Lakota prophecy that portends better times, according to members of the American Indian tribe who cautioned that it's also a warning more must be done to protect the earth and its animals. — The reported birth of a rare white buffalo in Yellowstone National …

Reported birth of rare white buffalo calf in Yellowstone park fulfills Lakota prophecy

— 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 it’s also a signal that more must be done to protect the earth and its animals. For the Lakota, the birth of a white buffalo calf with a …

How The Eastern Shoshone Are Bringing Back Wild Buffalo

WIND RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION — On a sunny August day, Jason Baldes drove a mud-caked quad with a drink holder overflowing with matted buffalo fur toward the wild herd he has overseen since 2016. Once fenced, a project that the nonprofit will have to raise $2 million to accomplish, the new land will join the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho’s …

LOADING ERROR LOADING When documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and longtime collaborator Dayton Duncan decided to make a documentary about the American buffalo, they had already done much of the work. The two-part documentary, “The American Buffalo,” which premieres Monday on PBS, also comes amid a growing movement to return wild bison to the landscape after their near-total annihilation in the …

How The Blackfeet Brought Buffalo Back

OUTSIDE BROWNING, Blackfeet Nation — On a warm morning in June, Brandon Boyce watched as a bison bull stepped away from its herd. On June 24, three weeks after Iinnii Days, the Blackfeet tribe took the historic step of freeing four dozen of the wild bison from Buffalo Spirit Hills Ranch onto a stretch of tribal land that borders Glacier …

Blackfeet Make Buffalo Restoration History

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Blackfeet Nation set dozens of wild bison loose on tribal land last week, in a historic move to restore a free-ranging herd at a time when the last remaining American buffalo are typically kept enclosed. When is the United States of America going to step on that path?” According to Indigenous Led, 49 bison were released …

Another person was gored by a bison at Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday, bringing the count to three people in four weeks to have been injured by the park's wild buffalo in the past month. The woman suffered non-life threatening injuries, according to the National Park Service, and was transported to a hospital in Cody, Wyoming. Another person was gored …