Native American Legends
Buffalo Skies
A Sioux Legend
The star blanket lit up the sky and the elders saw and prayed to
their ancestors. They cried out for answers. "Why are we left
here to starve? What has happened to Tatanka Oyasin (the Buffalo
Nation)?" The scouts had traveled very far to search for the
once huge herds of buffalo. All of the hunters returned only to
report of the same mystery. After many weeks, their greatest hunter
set out to find the answer to the mystery. His name was Fire Deer.
Fire Deer traveled for many days. Eventually he came across the
massive buffalo stampede tracks that plowed deep into the black
soil on the grassy plains. He followed them all the way into the
mountains to the West. From there, the tracks headed to the pure
North. It was up north where he noticed that they went straight
up the mountain side. The mountain was the largest and the steepest
one around. He labored his way all the way to the top of the mountain,
expecting to see the great herd. At the top he found nothing but
the end of the tracks. But the buffalo trail did not end, instead
it changed from the churned up earth to a flowing river of light
in the night sky. Fire Deer returned to tell of his story to the
elders.
The elders announced that the Buffalo were saved from the destruction
of the children from overseas. They now live closer to our ancestors
in the sky. If you travel up north, you may see them there in a
great stampede of colors in the sky. One day, when the Nations of
people can live with the all the animals in harmony, all of the
Buffalo Nation elders, who miss the Earth, shall return.
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