Show i r r Believe White Animals i Should Be Held Sacred Among many primitive primi ive peoples I white animals of various sorts al albinos al- al albinos albinos binos and otherwise have been endowed en en- endowed endowed dowed with supernatural virtues The animal selected for this rever rever- reverence reverence reverence ence is usually one closely associated asso ed with the life of the people like the elephant in Buddhist countries The ordinary bison was the plains I I Indians' Indians source of livelihood It pro pro- provided provided provided vided him with food clothing and utensils and with the hides for mak mak- making making making ing tents recalls a writer in the Chicago Daily News Long before the Indians had guns and horses they killed the bison by driving them into pens or over the brink of high embankments According Ac Ac- According According cording to a story collected from among the Indians of ot Fort Belknap the meat and hides of a herd thus taken was not touched if ii iia a white bison were found in the herd unless there was great scarcity of meat in the Indian camp Among the a white bison which was killed in a buffalo drive was skinned and the hide turned over to the keeper of the Turtle Pipe a pipe which was said to possess great supernatural power Among the Teton Sioux the white bison was believed to have taken the form according to their leg leg- legends legends legends ends of a beautiful woman who has a benevolent and powerful spirit References by early explorers to the white bison are few and widely scattered It is believed that Juan Onate who explored east Texas in 1601 is the first white man to make mention of the white bison Onate in mentioning the herds of bison he saw in the country says that all these cattle are of ot one color name color name namely ly brown brown and and it was a great mar mar- marvel marvel marvel vel to see a white bull in such a multitude |