![]() ![]() Out of all of the Lakota legends the one of the White Buffalo Woman and the Sacred Calf Pipe is the most sacred. As another gift to the Lakota, the buffaloes brought the red stone, which is said to be the flesh and blood of their ancestors who were lost in the flood, to allow everyone to make their own pipes. The pipe has brought the Lakota and the Buffalo Nation together. Once presenting the gift and telling of its power, the woman walks into the plains, lies on the ground and turns into a white buffalo calf, and joined the herd of buffaloes that had gathered. By presenting the Lakota leader Buffalo Standing Upright with the Sacred Calf Pipe for the people to use as they pray. ![]() There, while searching for the buffaloes, two young men discover a beautiful and mysterious young woman who has been sent by the Great Spirit to help their people. ![]() However, after suffering devastation from attacks from their enemies, they abandon their forested homes and move to the plains. ISBN 0792270746.Īfter a great flood that destroyed its people, the Lakota (Sioux) nation was born again by the marriage of a Woman of the Earth and the Eagle of the Sky. Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society. ![]()
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