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A group of Yellowstone National Park bison is due to finally arrive at a permanent home on a northeastern Montana American Indian reservation on Thursday, almost a decade after they were captured and spared from slaughter.
About 100 of the 138 animals were loaded onto trucks late Wednesday to travel overnight to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, home to the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes.
All of the bison were set to make the trip Wednesday, but one of the trucks broke down. The remaining bison will begin their journey Thursday.
The small herd will help tribal members regain a connection to an animal that helped shaped their ancestors' nomadic existence, tribal officials said.
Bison, also known as buffalo, still play a central role in many ceremonies for Plains Indian tribes.
The Yellowstone animals will be "welcomed with prayers," said Tom Escarcega, one of a group of Assiniboine and Sioux tribal leaders who planned to escort the animals to Fort Peck.
"It starts to bring back our ceremonies that we kind of forgot," Escarcega said. "In our culture, we treat the buffalo as a people, and we're the two-legged nation. They deserve respect."
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/top-news/tribes-to-receive-yellowstone-bison-held-by-turner/nh6HP/
malaise
(269,157 posts)Nice
Omaha Steve
(99,700 posts)Rare white buffalo slain and skinned, sheriff says: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/18147547/rare-white-buffalo-slain-skinned-sheriff
Lightning Medicine Cloud, rare white buffalo calf born May 12, 2011.
Posted: May 04, 2012 10:59 AM CDT
Updated: May 04, 2012 5:05 PM CDT
By: myfoxdfw.com Staff
The Hunt County Sheriff's Department is among several agencies investigating the gruesome death of a rare white buffalo, born nearly a year ago on a ranch near Greenville.
Lakota Buffalo Ranch owner Arby Little Soldier said he and his wife returned from out of town to find the calf, considered sacred by some in the Native American community, killed and skinned. The next day its mother was also found dead.
The non-albino white buffalo was named Lightning Medicine Cloud in a special ceremony last summer. The chance of a white buffalo birth is said to be 1 in 10 million.
"My people my brothers, my sisters are hurt for what has happened here at this ranch," Little Soldier said. "You don't think things like this are going to happen to such a sacred animal, a sacred family."
Sheriff Randy Meeks said he was notified of the crime by Texas Parks and Wildlife. His office is investigating with the help of the Department of Homeland Security and the National Indian Council.
FULL story AND VIDEO at link.
K&R!
ag_dude
(562 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,700 posts)Just something to add to the long list the white man did to the first Americans.
ag_dude
(562 posts)They never figured out who did that and the owner himself suspected ano the Native American tribe.
Do you know something that isn't public info?
Omaha Steve
(99,700 posts)Just a convenient excuse.
ag_dude
(562 posts)What source or info did you see that indicaTed it was a white man?
Omaha Steve
(99,700 posts)Think it was native. If you don't see who, why assume?
ag_dude
(562 posts)It's not hard to go back and find the news stories on the situation, did you even read them? Little Soldier accused Old Crow of doing it.
He also claims it was a professional poisoning that killed the mother. Not much about his story make sense and his refusal to allow the vet to investigate the bones further is extremely suspicious. Little Soldier stealing the money sent in for a reward and never using any of the money for the reward he promised just makes it stink to high heaven.
The vet's opinion that it was blackleg that killed the calf and then the mother a day later is a lot more plausible. If I had to guess, the calf died of blackleg (an insanely easy to prevent disease that is also easy to diagnose once it's killed a calf) and Little Soldier covered his ass with the slaughtering.
There's one thing for sure, nowhere have I seen anything that indicates a "white man".
What evidence or lead do you know of that caused you to say that?
Omaha Steve
(99,700 posts)I read a lot about this at the time.
IF you look a little you will see this wasn't the only suspicious death of a sacred whit buffalo in the last few years.
That is like saying "I didn't see the black guy that stole my car". Assuming it was a native without an eye witness or physical evidence means you leave the suspect info on the report BLANK. Your talking circumstantial. I write police reports for a living BTW.
I think we should drop the hi-jacking of this OP.
OS
ag_dude
(562 posts)He didn't say some random Native American killed the buffalo, he said a specific man from a different tribe did.
YOU on the other hand tied it to a "white man".
Where did you get that idea from?
What "white man" was involved in the case?
What are the other "suspicious death of a sacred white buffalo" that you are talking about?
Omaha Steve
(99,700 posts)Natives got fair deal on the land they lost over 250 years, game, etc. Great opinion.
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Omaha Steve
(99,700 posts)So I can tell your comprehension really sucks.
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Omaha Steve
(99,700 posts)It was early. I can misstate things early in the day like this morning. I have trouble sleeping. It has an effect. I'm medicated and dying. What is your excuse for being a total ass?
OS
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Omaha Steve
(99,700 posts)Congratulations on being the FIRST to ever get put on my ignore list.
OS
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elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)In what America can a Native American be racist?
Oktober
(1,488 posts)... Then they qualify.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)not racism, which is systemic and institutional.
Oktober
(1,488 posts)Whatever you gotta tell yourself...
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)But that just proves you uninformed. And, continuing to do so in opposition to the science, proves you WILLFULLY uninformed ... or worse.
Oktober
(1,488 posts)Due to a desire to more easily conform to the gendered articles of the rest of the world.
Doesn't matter that no one else is going to acknowledge it. They called dibs and by decree everyone else is wrong due to 'science'
You are adorable...
You might have a point if there was any hint of consensus other than the fringe folks who are trying to explain why certain forms of racism are better than others.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Try just about every post-Civil Rights era social scientist that has studied and written on the subject of racism.
The fringe folks are folks like you, that cling to pre-1980s understanding of the phenomena.
BTW, racism is NOT "better than" any other "ism", nor is any form of bigotry, "better than" better than anything else.
Oktober
(1,488 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)we would not have to have this discussion.
Oktober
(1,488 posts)It's much easier because mine doesn't have any fine print or asterisks...
If you dislike or treat someone poorly or generalize because of their skin color... You are a racist...
Easy peasy...
That certainly does not negate the concept of institutional racism but of course that is a subset of the larger category.
I can see how you might get a bit more bogged down in your version.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Just as the gop is quite comfortable in their understanding of climate change. And like the gop, when offered the state academic understanding, you remain comfortable in your contrary, but unschooled, understanding.
Yes ... Liberals do tend to inform our opinions on current academic conclusions. The question is/should be, why are you comfortable in the 20th century?
Oktober
(1,488 posts)... in an amazingly convenient manner that excludes an enormous segment of the population from it, are equivalent to the same whack fringe scientists who think that the climate doesn't change.
Glad to see you came around...
Being loud and stubborn and demanding that the world conform to how you'd like it to be certainly doesn't make it so...
Well done...
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Try the weight of 21st century academia.
But Okay ... I'm done.
ETA: But one point to ponder: Your whole argument is based on Racism being, somehow, worse than bigotry ... Why is that?
7962
(11,841 posts)Known facts mean nothing, you should know that by now!
jwirr
(39,215 posts)would.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts).. individuality. There are assholes in any group of people who do shitty things.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)I guess the American citizens paid for round-up, capture and transportation to Teds private ranch. Did we also pay for feed and maintenance. Who profited from the calves?
Why didn't they leave the bison free instead of spending 20k federal money per bison? (or more)