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Article: PILGRIMAGE TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK HONORS SACRED BUFFALO.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 12, 1999
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No priest ever held a crucifix, no rabbi ever read a torah and no lama ever approached a holy stupa, I imagine, with more tender reverence than Lakota elder Rosalie Little Thunder cradled the medicine bundle of White Buffalo Calf Woman on the final steps of a 500-mile pilgrimage that ended last weekend in Yellowstone National Park.
An ancient prophet of the Lakota people, White Buffalo Calf Woman has become legendary as the giver of ritual and right ways. It was she who rescued a starving people with the gift of buffalo, and she who promised to return one day, purifying and restoring harmony to the world and its inhabitants. Her sacred bundle has been guarded and ...