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Owl Of US MATTER BLOG 1


White Buffalo Saskatoon Zoo:

“A white Beefalo is a Charolais and Bison hybrid that looks similar to a White Buffalo that First Nations and Métis people consider sacred. The zoo’s white Beefalo is a four-year-old neutered male that came from the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg. The addition to the zoo’s Bison Exhibit provides the Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park and Zoo with an opportunity to partner with First Nations and Métis communities to educate the public on the spiritual significance of a white buffalo calf.”


Watch the White Buffalo:


For other uses, see White buffalo (disambiguation).


A white buffalo at the Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park and Safari in Ashland, Nebraska. This animal is not a true white buffalo, being 1/16 Charolais cattle. It is expected that its coat will darken as it matures.

A white buffalo or white bison is an American bison possessing white fur, and is considered sacred or spiritually significant in several Native American religions; therefore, such buffalo is often visited for prayer and other religious rituals. The coats of buffalo are almost always brown and their skin a dark brown or black; however, white buffalo can result from one of several physical conditions:

  • They may be albinos, in which case they will remain unpigmented throughout their lives, and may also have hearing and vision problems.

  • They may be leucistic, with white fur but blue eyes, instead of the pink seen in people with albinism.

  • They may have a rare genetic condition that causes a buffalo to be born white, but to become brown within a year or two as it matures.

  • They may be beefalo, a bison–cattle crossbreed, and thus have inherited the white coloration from their cattle ancestry.

White buffalo are extremely rare; the National Bison Association has estimated that they only occur in approximately one out of every 10 million births.


In 1786 statistics show that over 705,000 skins were exported from Québec alone, valued at over £203,000. Muskrat, 202,719; deer, 133,271; beaver, 116,623; raccoon, 108,521; marten, 48,463; otter, 23,684; bear, 19,362 (what a chance for the Zoological Garden!) : wolf, 12,923; elk, 7,555, with numerous others, the particular designation of which are now unknown. This was a single year's business from one port, and at that date, the traffic had fallen off largely, as the country was beginning to get drained of the supply.

Published by Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Michigan Nov 4, 1883.

Manitoba Free Press

April 8, 1878

THE BUFFALO PRESERVATION LAW

The ordinances passed at the first legislative session of the Council of the Northwest Territories, under the “North-West Territories Act, 1877, “ having been laid before Parliament in accordance with the requirements of the statute, we have now to hand the text of the law for the preservation of the buffalo which went into force on 1st June last.

Passing of the Buffalo

The destruction of the immense northern herd of bison, which is stated to have numbered 4,000,000 head at the beginning has never been told with any degree of accuracy. It is certain that very few were left in the Canadian west when the Canadian Pacific Railway had been completed. The construction gangs of this road disposed of the stragglers of this once mighty herd, as was the case in the building of the Union Pacific railroad in the U. S.To this day, however, the whole of the vast west is scarred and pitted with their groove-like trails and basin-like wallows, which are permanent records of the migratory marches and daily dust-baths of these heavy beasts.

Old-Time Hunts

Old-time Hudson’s Bay factors who still survive, tell of the great hunting expeditions of the fifties and sixties when the employees of the pioneer fur company with their creaking Red River carts took part in these hunts in order to secure the yearly supply of pemmican for their northern hunting and trading posts. At one time the prairie around the present capital of Saskatchewan was covered by piles of whitened bones, but which have nearly all been gathered up and shipped to be used as fertilizers. “Pile of Bones,“ or Regina, was the head of this peculiar industry which flourished shortly after the Riel rebellion.

The Last Buffalo

The last buffalo to be killed in Western Canada met his death in 1886. He had been wounded twice during that year but escaped, to meet his fate on the range of a couple of ranchers near the south branch of the Saskatchewan, who had a herd of several hundred Highland cattle and it happened that about the time when the sandhill crane flies south, two of the ranchmen were sent out in search of them. They caught sight of the band at noon on the second day out and were amazed to see it massed together for all the world like a bunch of horses about a smudge or smoke-fire when the flies and mosquitoes are at their worst on a still, cloudy summer evening. With much difficulty they broke up the throng and there where the center of the swirling crest of blood-maniacs had been, they found the torn and trampled carcass of the mighty wanderer. What an end!


Recreating this photo:

















A Curse on the land, recreating this:




























“Our initial response may even be to seek revenge and to retaliate like for like. But according to recent psychological research, the better we are at controlling our thoughts and behaviour and not retaliating, the easier it is to forgive.”




From my family to yours I forgive you photo to recreate for illustration: https://medium.com/the-ascent/what-i-wish-i-knew-about-forgiveness-before-my-mom-died-a1dcf377d411



















2022-04-14 I have been really busy this weekend painting the images I have drawn for the book. I was going to take pictures of the images plane but then I forgot to take the pictures when I first started so, the first two photos have some paint on them (sad). But I did my best and here they are. (see photos below).


The title is "OWL OF US MATTER ''.


My daughter Keaira drew & painted this image. We have decided this will be the cover page.


So this is the first page and the second page, like I said I forgot to take a picture before painting. The first page also got redon, I did not like the way that the mountains looked orange so I went and got new paint and redid this image.


Second Page.


Third Picture.


Fourth.



















Fifth.






































Six.


Seven.


Eight.


Nine (Flip-up pg.)


Nine (second of flip-up pg.)


Ten.


Eleven.


Twelve.


Thirteen.


Fourteen.


Fifteen. (Got redone, the first attempt on painting went wrong).


Sixteen.

-The End Photo








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