American Buffalo (technically Bison) are normally brown in color. Rarely, White Buffalo are born. Binomial name Bison bison Linnaeus, 1758 The American Bison (Bison bison), also called Buffalo, is a bovine mammal that is the largest terrestrial mammal in North America. ... Species B. antiquus B. bison B. bonasus B. priscus Bison is a taxonomic genus containing six species of large even-toed ungulates within the subfamily Bovinae. ...

White Buffalo are considered to be sacred signs in several Native American religions, and thus have great spiritual importance in those cultures, and are visited for prayer and other religious ceremonies. In various religions, sacred (from Latin, sacrum, sacrifice) or holy, objects, places or concepts are believed by followers to be intimately connected with the supernatural, or divinity, and are thus greatly revered. ... An Aani (Atsina) named Assiniboin Boy. ...

White Buffalo can result from one of several physical conditions:

• They may have a rare genetic condition which causes a buffalo to be born white, but to become brown within a year or two as it matures.
• They may be Albinos, in which case they will remain unpigmented throughout their lives, and may also have hearing and vision problems.
• They may be Beefalo, a Bison-Cattle crossbreed, and thus have inherited the white coloration from their cattle ancestry.

Albinism is a genetic condition resulting in a lack of pigmentation in the eyes, skin and hair. ... Beefalo are a fertile hybrid offspring of domestic cattle, Bos taurus, and the American Bison, Bison bison (generally called buffalo). ... Binomial name Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 Cattle (often called cows in vernacular and contemporary usage, or kye as the Scots plural of cou) are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. ...

Individual White Buffalo

• In 1833, a white bison was killed by the Cheyenne. The skin of this bison is hanging on the wall of Bent's Old Fort in Colorado. The Cheyenne killed this white bison during the Leonid Meteor Shower (The Night the Stars Fell) and scribed a peace and trade treaty on its skin. This event was documented by historian Josiah Gregg and other travelers on the Santa Fe Trail.

• A bison named Big Medicine (1933-1959) was born in the wild on the National Bison Range on Montana's Flathead Indian Reservation, and is now displayed at the Montana Historical Society.[1]

• A white buffalo was recorded at the U.S. Army Arctic Testing Center, Fort Greely, Alaska. There is a copyrighted photograph of it in "Seeing the White Buffalo" by Robert Pickering. This buffalo was part of a herd that had been relocated from Montana.

• A female named Miracle (not to be confused with Miracle Moon), was born at the family farm of Dave, Valerie, and Corey Heider near Janesville, Wisconsin on August 20, 1994. Her fur fully transitioned to brown as she matured, and she gave birth to four calves of her own before dying of natural causes on September 19, 2004. Sioux tribal members had continually visited their farm since the birth of Miracle. Additionally, a calf born at the Heider farm died aged 4 days in 1996. A third white calf was born in August 2006 which died after being struck by lightning in November of the same year.

• Spirit Mountain Ranch in Flagstaff, Arizona has successfully bred two generations of white buffalo starting from a single white female, all with brown fathers. Their herd includes seven animals as of May 2005:
  • Miracle Moon (female, born April 30, 1997)
  • Rainbow Spirit (female, born June 8, 2000, calf of Miracle Moon)
  • Mandela Peace Pilgrim (female, born July 18, 2001, calf of Miracle Moon)
  • Arizona Spirit (male, born July 1, 2002, calf of Miracle Moon)
  • Sunrise Spirit (female, born May 22, 2004, calf of Mandela Peace Pilgrim)
  • Spirit Thunder (male, born May 27, 2004, calf of Rainbow Spirit)
  • Chief Hiawatha (male, born May 16, 2005, calf of Miracle Moon)

• Ma-hi-ya-sqa ("White Cloud") is an albino White Buffalo born July 10, 1996. She has resided since 1997 at the National Buffalo Museum and Cultural Center in Jamestown, North Dakota. Ma-hi-ya-sqa has been certified by the National Bison Association as an albino white bison; she is deaf and has impaired vision. She has had two calves, both brown.

• Tupelo Buffalo Park and Zoo in Tupelo, MS owns a white buffalo bull named Tukota.

• A male white buffalo named Spirit of Peace was born on April 17, 2005, on the Blatz Bison Ranch in Fort St. John, British Columbia. Unfortunately, Spirit of Peace died on June 1 of the same year, probably as a result of his premature birth.

• Buffalo Crossing in Shelbyville, KY owns a female white buffalo named Medicine Heart, born June 3, 2005.

• A male named Blizzard was born in March 2006 on the farm of an anonymous rancher, who arranged to have the calf transported to Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg, Manitoba in recognition of his spiritual significance to aboriginal people.

• A third white buffalo was born on the Heider farm (see "Miracle" above) on Aug. 25, 2006. The male calf was named Miracle Second Chance and was unrelated to Miracle. The Heiders planned to breed the male with the descendents of Miracle, but during a thunderstorm late November 26, 2006, five buffalos on the Heider farm were killed in a lightning strike, including Miracle Second Chance.

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In Popular Culture

• The birth of a white buffalo is featured in the Season 3 X-Files episode, "The Blessing Way".

X-Files intro from first 8 seasons The X-Files was a popular 1990s American science fiction television series created by Chris Carter. ...

See also

• White Buffalo Calf Woman

The White Buffalo Calf Woman, in Lakota mythology, is a sacred woman of supernatural origin who gave the people many of their most sacred rituals. ...

External links

• Miracle, the Sacred White Buffalo

• White bison calf born on May 22nd, 2004 outside of Flagstaff

• White bison calf born on April 17, 2005 in Fort Saint John, British Columbia

• Tupelo Buffalo Park and Zoo in Tupelo, MS

• Pickering, Robert B., "Seeing the White Buffalo". pgs. 91-92.