User:Incognito Buffalo

A true white buffalo story

There are a lot of different interpretations of the White Buffalo image. This one about the woman is one of them that doesn't apply to my situation. There are not many Minnehahas along the rugged raod less traveled but the culture demands the homage; & the myth be subject to a female interpretation that may be irrelevant;  let it be. Women came and went in my life.More power to them. My white buffalo dream/nightmare is like in the book "Dau" by Ed Dodge: who so ever  sees the white buffalo will live if he follows the trail of tears. I was already a believer having had a vision that Jesus came back to earth and it was true. I played bass in a Gospel band, and sang. I had a good voice my brother hated; I could sing all the Elvis songs well & on request like "Blue Suede Shoes' 'Moody Blue" at the very end.. Next to the end I was playing in clubs I loved 2.5 years then it ended; being dissolved & divided among my myopic brethren for selfish reasons concerned with ego and sex. I was young not wanting to give up on family music biz but not wanting the change they wanted. So I prayed about it. By now I am going on 30. The bros also hated it that I had a lot of technicolor dreams.

Then came the brown and white nightmare:I was out in field north of my dad's house, standing alone facing west which is the past;   a largos brown buffalo charged me and tried successfully to run me over. I wrestle with it as the big JBL speakers horns rumbled over me, it trampled me into the dirt. I was really bummed out. Then from the same area the brown bison bison of the past came from comes a little white buffalo calf. I pick it up in my arms carrying it back into my dad's yard in back of the house; on the edge of the field though I throw little white buffalo aside, a tough little critter it was but alive, it is going to survive without my help. Soon Little WB reincarnated to become my friend John Knopik from Buffalo MN with whom I worked almost 7 years; he was rewarded grace as a  successful business executive for his roll in the saga.

It took 34 years to figure out the dream. I liked what the person from NY wrote on the white buffalo website where it was the only original thought right on the beam: e.g. what are the chances a MN small city boy would have every attempt failed to ressurect the los bros band for 34 years every attempt a failure and actually turned to brother hate kill as in Luke 14.26 one bros in law did suffer a miserable fate, while interfering. Post toasted I went to work in the city with not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 people from Buffalo ville : Dale Au, Dan Kemp son of a music instructor, and Mary Meier from Buffalo NY and one -the last one John Kodak the young white buffalo from Buffalo MN. Ratio: 1 in 600 million? You can bet on it. This is a true story. If it were not for the work I did with these four folks (plus many others not from Buffalo) I have no idea where they came from either it never came up!-I would not have a pot to piss in as one of my cruel brethren who hated and resisted the band idea until last summer proved turning off my music for the nth time; I finally got the message as in die hard hostage.

When it finally dawned on me: the white buffalo myth/prophecy/fortune is what sustained my life as in the Ed Dodge, 'Dau' novel,  like the buffalo sustained the Native Americans. It represented the will of God/Image who put white corn bread on my plate a plain fare most people couldn't survive on; and, a paycheck in my pocket. The will of Providence sustained me when my family "band" kicked me to the gutter, and mocked me for it; but as the ironic will to power would have it I now own a share of land with the beloved brethren of what was the last Sioux reservation in the Minnesota River bottoms.(eventually I will paste in stuffings from my two novels "Earth as it is" in the Bemidji State Library, and "The Mystery of Lawlessness" soon to be publish in First Books or Vantage maybe later. Ah'll be back, as my friend Ahnold of the Punchinello Players UofM once said, Incognito Buffalo (talk) 00:13, 19 February 2012 (UTC)