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WHITE BUFFALO -
A Story of Creation

by Sarah J. Andrew
Original art by Cyndi Harris
Original photography and photo-graphcis by Nancy Hopkins

This is a story inspired by other stories.
There is a Native American story about creation
that has the first humans coming out of the ground.
Another story concerns American Buffalo,
simply waiting to be killed, as if giving their lives
for those of the Plains Indians.

And then there is the belief that every animal
has a special energy, which the Native American calls "medicine".
The specifics of this belief, were derived from the following:

ANIMAL-SPEAKS,
The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small
by Ted Andrews, 1996,
Llewellyn Publications ISBN 0-87542-028-1

MEDICINE CARDS,
The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals
by Jamie Sams & David Carson, 1988,
Bear & Company, ISBN 0-939680-53-X

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