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Thursday, 09 February 2006 12:13 |
The White Buffalo Legend
In the words of Chief Arvol Looking Horse:
Hua Kola!
As the 19th Generation
Keeper
of the Sacred
White Buffalo Calf Pipe,
I bring you greetings
from the Lakota,
Dakota
& Nakota Nations....
Our prophesies
have informed us
that changes would come
with the birth
of the white buffalo calf. I believe
our voices & message
will be heard
through the medium of music.
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The White Buffalo Legend
We have the stories
& the songs
that goes with
the White Buffalo.
A long time ago,
after the creation stories,
the people
were in the Black Hills,
heart
of everything
that is. And the people
used to go around
the Black Hills,
they used to travel
great distances,
but they always came back
to the Black Hills
because that's where
we the people
have come from.
And when they,
the people,
were in the northeast
of the sacred Black Hills,
when
a long time ago, they say that
the camp,
that somebody was sick in the family,
that one person
would hold the whole camp back
& so
they wouldn t move camp.
Then one day
all the buffalo disappeared,
& the game,
so the people at camp
sent scouts out to travel,
& then,
after so many days,
they sent two scouts
out again
& it was,
I bet you,
it was a good day like this.
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As they were
going back to the camp,
from the west
they saw a cloud of dust.
So
these two scouts said,
as they were talking
back & forth,
the cloud of dust
all of a sudden came over
the ridge
was a woman,
dressed in buckskin,
fringes,
black hair,
& she was carrying a bundle.
So
as she came down
that little dip there
then come up that hill
they both stood up,
said
one said,
She is a beautiful woman,
I must take her for a wife.
But the other said,
[Lakota words]
Surely
The Creator must have sent this woman,
because
the braves are sick,
the people are hungry.
As they were talking back & forth
she came to them
& said
she pointed to the one with the bad thoughts.
She motioned to him,
& he approached her,
& then a cloud
enveloped him.
Then the cloud lifted,
[Lakota words]
[Lakota words]
a skeleton.
Then
she turned to that one,
the other scout,
& said
Go back
to the people
& tell them
what you have seen.
So
he
went back
he thanked her & went back
& told the people.
Then she said, Tell them
tomorrow
I'll be returning
with this bundle.
Prepare an altar with sage,
cherry trees to the four directions,
& a tepee.
So
the people
went
& prepared this.
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The next day,
sure enough she was coming.
She was singing
these songs.
(And to this day
we have kept these songs.)
And when she came in
to the altar
she laid the bundle down.
She said, This red stone
is the blood of your people,
your ancestors.
And the stem
is the tree of life,
the root nation.
[Lakota words]
We put it together,
you pray,
you humble yourself,
you pray
to the west,
to the north,
east,
south,
your Creator,
& Mother Earth.
In time you will know
the seventh direction.
Then when she left,
before she left them she said,
Only the good
shall see the pipe.
The bad
should not even
see it
or touch it.
So when she went,
she went towards the west
& on the hill
when she turned over
the first time
she stood up
was a black buffalo
young one.
Then the second time
was a red one.
The third time was a yellow,
buckskin.
The fourth time
was a white one.
So the people said,
she was a [Lakota words]
the white
buffalo
calf
woman.
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So we kept
the stories,
we kept the songs,
& people had dreams
because
the way that we live,
the cycle of life,
that each one of us
would have to live
these moments,
the good
& the bad.
That's what we pray
we pray with these sacred bones
& we try
to clear our minds.
We tell people
we have to have that respect
for these sacred places.
Your walk
has to become sacred.
The people pray at these places
for a long time,
& it becomes sacred.
We live upon Mother Earth,
for a very short time,
then we go
into the spirit world
to meet our relatives
a way of life
so the ceremonies,
when we pray then we look good,
then we see
we have to give away
something,
then we see that
that's the way that life is,
that's the way
what they call holistic
everything
that's the way we
pray,
that's the way
we feel,
that everything is connected.
[Lakota words],
everything
that moves
has a spirit.
So
we have these teachings
at the sacred
sweat lodge
we call it,
you can only see
half,
the other
goes beneath the earth,
& that makes
a complete circle
that is Mother Earth
& our life
when the White
Buffalo Calf Woman,
when she came to the people,
what they said was,
that's the way
we saw things,
that one is good
& one is bad,
& one
had good thoughts
& one had bad thoughts,
that's the way
we are
as common people
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