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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Colleen Slevin

Mystery grows after rare white buffalo sacred to Native Americans has not been seen for weeks after birth

AP

Yellowstone National Park officials said Friday a rare white buffalo sacred to Native Americans has not been seen since its birth on June 4.

The birth of the white buffalo in the wild, which fulfilled a Lakota prophecy that portends better times, was the first recorded in Yellowstone history and is a landmark event for the ecocultural recovery of bison, said park officials in confirming the birth for the first time.

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