"We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as "wild". To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery."

Luther Standing Bear - Rosebud Sioux

Guardian of the Water Medicine

Guardian of the Water Medicine
Dale Auger

Dale Auger

Dale Auger: On Art, Blood and Kindred Spirits
by Terri Mason

Defining Dale Auger in one sentence is akin to releasing the colours of a diamond in one cut. It can’t be done. It’s the many facets that release a diamond’s true brilliance, as it is the many facets of Auger’s life, education, ancestry, experiences and beliefs that have shaped and polished his work into the internationally acclaimed and collected artist that he is today.

Born a Sakaw Cree from the Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta, Auger’s education began as a young boy when his mother would take him to be with the elders. “I used to say to myself, ‘Why is she leaving me with these old people?’ – but today I see the reason; I was being taught in the old way.”

Auger’s respect for traditional teachings led him on a journey to study art, opening the door to a doctorate in education. He is a talented playwright, speaker and visual artist whose vividly coloured acrylics have captured the attention of collectors that reads like an international ‘Who’s Who’ spanning English to Hollywood royalty. The essence of his work is communication, and now Dr. Auger has come full circle, interpreting the life of his culture – from the everyday to the sacred - through the cross-cultural medium of art.

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Monday, June 9, 2008

White buffalo may herald hope and peace

By: Doreen Yellow Bird

Another white buffalo calf was born Saturday at the National Buffalo Museum and Culture Center in Jamestown, N.D., making it third white buffalo calf born there. These white buffalo currently live in the Jamestown museum’s pasture.

White buffalo calves have a special spiritual meaning for American Indian people. So, many Indian people hail the birth as a spiritual event.

The birth of a white buffalo calf is rare but not unheard of. Records indicate in 1833, a white buffalo was killed by the Cheyenne, and the skin is hanging in the Bent’s Old Fort in Colorado. On Oct. 7, 1876, Wright Mooar killed a white buffalo, and he kept the hide his whole life, despite reports that Teddy Roosevelt tried to buy it from him for $5,000.

Spirit Mountain Ranch in Flagstaff, Ariz., has bred three generations of white buffalo, and there are reports of other white calves in different parts of the nation. Yet they remain rare and don’t seem to live as long as the brown buffalo.

A white buffalo calf, later named Miracle, was born on the Heider farm near Janesville, Wis., in 1994. Since that time, nine white buffalo calves have been born to their herd.

The white buffalo currently in the Jamestown museum was born in Michigan, N.D., then leased to the Jamestown museum. The white buffalo is named White Cloud or Mahpiya Ska. White Cloud gave birth to a white calf in January. One of White Cloud’s four brown calves gave birth to the white calf on Saturday, so this new calf is White Cloud’s grandchild.

There's more here: http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=78631
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