There's a song by the repugnant Theodore A. Nugent about this. The Lakota tribe believes that the birth of a white bison calf portends better times ahead. Recently, a baby white bison was seen running around Yellowstone National Park...but it has not been spotted for almost a month.
They (you know "them") say that one white bison calf is born out of every one million.
There were some photos taken earlier, and they show the little critter to be leucistic, meaning it has a partial loss of all types of pigmentation. An animal with albinism is totally lacking in pigmentation. The newborn out there has black eyes and hooves.
Yellowstone is home to about 4,550 bison (census taken before the calving season) but one in five calves dies shortly after birth because of natural hazards, so no one is sure if this Great White Buffalo is still with us.
In native American lore, there was a time when the Lakota stopped praying to the Creator. But a young woman in white buckskin came to them to teach them seven sacred rites. She also brought to them the White Buffalo Calf Chanupa pipe, which they use in their tribal ceremonies.
I hope they find the little white buffalo and that he will appear on "Live With Kelly And Mark" very soon!
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