see them as a renewal of God's ongoing relationship with
humanity ~ so do the Native Americans see the white buffalo calf as the
sign to begin life's sacred hoop.

"The arrival of the white buffalo is like the second coming
of Christ," says Floyd Hand Looks For Buffalo, an Oglala Medicine Man from
Pine Ridge, South Dakota. "It will bring about purity of mind, body,
and spirit and ;unify all nations ~ black, red, yellow, and white." He
sees the birth of a white calf as an omen because they happen in the most
unexpected places and often among the poorest people in the nation. The
birth of the sacred white buffalo provides those within the Native American
community with a sense of hope and an indication that good times are to come." See legend
description ~ http://www.lightningmedicinecloud.com/legend.html

"and going to suffer more from the extraction of the coal there
and the poisoning processes used in doing so.

The
Aborigines have warned of the contaminating effects of global warming on the
Coral Reefs, which they see as Mother Earth's blood purifier.

The
indigenous people of the rainforest say that the rainforests are the lungs of
the planet and need protection.

The
Gwich'in Nation in Alaska has had to face oil drilling in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, also known to the Gwich'in as "Where
life begins."

The
coastal plain is the birthplace of many life forms of the animal nations. The
death of these animal nations will destroy indigenous nations in this
territory.

As these
destructive developments continue all over the world, we will witness many more
extinct animal, plant, and human nations, because of mankind's misuse of power
and their lack of