| Show M Believe White Animals Should Be Held Sacred r I Among many mans primitive peoples white animals of various sorts al al- and otherwise have been endowed endowed en en- dowed with supernatural vir virtues ues IThe The animal selected for this re reverence reverence rever rever- ri r- r i ence is usually one closely associated at I ed cd with the life HIe of the people like the elephant in Buddhist countries The ordinary bison was the plains I a Indians' Indians source of livelihood It prod provided pro- pro vided d him with food clothing and andi j i i utensils and with the hides for mak- mak maki makeI I jing fug ing tents recalls a writer in the them m Chicago Daily News 1 I Long before the Indians had guns sand jand and horses they killed the bison by byE I E driving them into pens or over the I brink of high embankments According Ac- Ac fording cording to a n story collected from fromI I among the Indians of Fort the meat and hides of a herd thus taken was not touched if it iff f a white a-white white bison were found in inthe the herd i i unless there there- was great scarcity of I meat in the Indian camp camp I Among the tsina 1 a a white bison I which ch was killed iJ ir in a a b buffalo bufalo drive lor k and the h id turn d I i W wu va U s s l emu me un i e s lover over to the keeper of the Turtle Pipe a pipe which was said laid to possess great supernatural power r t Amon Among the Teton Sioux the white I bison was believed to have taken 1 the form according to fo their legends legi leg- leg i i ends of a beautiful woman who has a benevolent and powerful 1 spirit References by early explorers to toi i the white bison are few and widely I scattered It is believed that Juan 1 Onate who explored east Texas in 1601 is the first white man to make makei i i mention of the white bison Onate in mentioning the herds of bison he hei i saw in the country says that all these cattle are of one ne color name color namely name name- i l ly brown brown and and it was a great marvel marvel marvet mar mar- vel vet to see a white bull buH in such a aj j multitude I |
