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INDEX
Bold entries indicate photographs or drawings
Afraid of Horses, Frank, 69
Agriculture practices, concerns about, 110, 112
Albinism, 24, 87, 90, 92–93, 96, Color Plates 9, 10, 11
Alexis, Grand Duke, 76
Allard, Charles. 103
Allen,J. A.: on white buffalo, 85
American Bison Association (ABA), viii
— on colors/ patterns, 93-94
— NBA merger with, 119
— reaction of, 11-12
American Bison Society (ABS)
— conservation and, 98
— membership in, 97
American Fur Company, 25, 26
Apache, buffalo origin myth and, 15
Arapaho, buffalo origin myth and, 15
Arctic Testing Center, 92
— white buffalo at, 91-92
Beckman, Mrs. (neighbor), 4
Beloit Daily News
— web site, 131
Berry, Betty, 91-92
Berry, Harold, 91-92
Bierstadt, Albert, x
Big Bend National Park, painting at, 83
Big Medicine, 91
Big Missouri, winter count robe of, 28, 29
Bison
— aboriginal images of, 83, 84, Color Plate 4
— Ice Age, 81
— paintings of, 82-83
— Paleolithic, 8-84
— symbolism of, 110-11
— See also Buffalo
Bison-man figure, 37
Bison priscus, 82
Bison ranching
— economics of, 108, 116, 118, 119
— growth of, 118-20
Bison World, viii
Black Angus, crossbreeding with, 89
Blackfeet, 21, 25, 85
— buffalo origin myth and, 15
— buffalo stone and, 39
Blanket dance, 60
Bloodlines, 95, 106
Blue Babe, 82-83
Blue Mountain Bison Ranch, 107, 110
Bodmer, Karl Mandans and, 23, 24
— White Buffalo Society and, 23
— Women of the White Buffalo Society by, Color Plate 1
Bojadillas, 36-37
Branch, Douglas E.: on white buffalo hide, 27
Buffalo, 94, 106, 107
— decimation of, 43–44, 73, 75, 78–80, 96
— disposition of, 100
— domesticating, 102
— origin myth of, 15
— protecting, 79, 90, 98, 99
— return of, 44–45, 55, 138-39
Buffalo Calf Woman, Tanka Wasla Najin and, 54
Buffalo callers, 38-39
Buffalo Commons, 114, 116-18
Buffalo dance, 60
Buffalo fat, therapeutic/curative powers of, 100
Buffalo herds, 74
— genetic makeup of, 73, 80–81, 95-96
— population of, 73, 75
Buffalo "jump," 35
Buffalo meat, 120
— nutritive value of, 110
Buffalo nation, 52
Buffalo products, marketing, 100
Buffalo runners, 43, 75
Buffalo stone, 39
Bullfight of the Century, 104-5
Bull Lake, white buffalo at, 63
Bundles, 22, 39, 61, 62
Campbell, Joseph
— on American Indian spirituality, 52
— on religion, 137
Canadian Bison Association, NBA and, 119
Catlin, George
— Mandans and, 24-25
— on white buffalo, 85
— on white robe, 26
Cattalo, 87, 100
Cattlemen's Association, bison ranchers and, 108
Cattle ranching
— economics of, 116
— toll from, 115-16
Ceremonial artifacts, 41
Charolais, 88, 89
— crossbreeding with, 88-90
Chauvet Cave, bison head image at, 37-38
Cheyennes, 21, 22
— buffalo origin myth and, 15
Cliffs, driving over, 35
Cody, William F "Buffalo Bill," 101
— hunting by, 43, 75, 76
Colors, 81-82
— of ancient bison, 83-84
— changes in, 65–66, 68, 91, 128-29, 136-37
— studying, 84–85, 86, 89-90
— variations in, 93–94, Color Plate 3
Comanche, buffalo origin myth and, 15
Conservation movement, 80
— buffalo and, 98, 99, 102
Coronado, horses and, 41
Cree, white buffalo and, 85
Crossbreeding, 87–90, 106
— experiments in, 100, 102
Crow, buffalo origin myth and, 15
Custer State Park, bison at, 119
Dalai Lama, 124, 130
Death, white buffalo and, 64
Denver Post, on white buffalo, vii
Dogs, hunting with, 41, 42
Doris (Val's mother), 5, 7, 122
Dorsey, George: on white buffalo sacrifice, 20-21
Eagle, meaning of, 71
Elk Island Park, buffalo at, 103
Environment, 48–49, 70, 72
— concern for, 108-9, 110
— economics and, 109
Extinction, 79, 119, 120
— danger of, 80, 97, 102
Farming, decline in, 111-12
First Buffalo, 15
Fletcher, Alice: White Buffalo Festival and, 21
Fort Greely, white buffalo at, 91-92
Fort Washakie Reservation, white buffalo at, 60
Gabillou Cave, painting at, 38
Genetic diversity, 73, 80–81, 94–95, 99
— determining range of, 95-96
Ghost Dance, 45, 48
Gift shop, 122, 127
Gomara, drawing by, 84
Goodnight, Charles: buffalo herd of, 99-100
Gore, Sir St. George: hunting expeditions by, 76
Grandfather Mystery, 18
Grant, Ulysses S.: buffalo protection and, 79
Great American Buffalo, The (exhibition), 11
Great Spirit, 25, 26
— buffalo and, 18
Guns, adapting to, 42-43
Hand, Floyd (Looks For Buffalo), 56, 138
— on Heiders, 134
— Miracle and, 48, 134
— on white buffalo, 12–13, 66-72
Hand, Floyd, Jr., 69
Headdress, 31
Heider, Dave, viii, 7, 8, 9, 93, 139
— changes for, 130, 132-33
— expenses for, 13
— gifts for, 124-25, 126, 127
— Miracle and, 121-22, 124, 128
— tribal elders and, 135
— visitors and, 127, 129-31
— white buffalo and, 1, 2, 11, 13-14
— spiritual values of, 137-38
Heider, Val, 4–5, 7, 8
— ABA and, 11-12
— changes for, 130, 132-33
— expenses for, 13
— gifts for, 124-25, 126, 127
— Miracle and, 121-22, 131
— spiritual values of, 137-38
— visitors and, 129-31
— white buffalo and, vii, 1, 2, 10, 11, 13–14, 70
Heiders' farm
— changes at, 121-22, 127-28, 137
— visiting, ix, xi, 2
Hell's Gap point, 41
Henday, Antony, 85
Henry, Alexander, 85
— on Hidatsa/white robe, 27
Herefords, crossbreeding with, 89
Hidatsa, 20
— buffalo origin myth and, 15