A rare white buffalo calf was born in June in Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park. Jason Bittel shares the significance of this leucistic calf in the current time as well as some of the indigenous lore surrounding white buffalos.
White buffalo are sacred animals in Native American culture and considered both a blessing and a warning.”
Source: National Geographic, June 13, 2024. Link. One statistic bandied about online, and misattributed to the National Bison Association, is that a white buffalo calf will occur in one out of every 10 million births. Bison restoration principles warn against breeding bison and cattle to create and exploit color anomalies.
Photograph by Erin Braaten, Dancing Aspens Photography from the article