Ojibway Native American White Buffalo Totem by Kevin and Tanner Gadomski

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Ojibway Native American White Buffalo Totem by Kevin and Tanner Gadomski

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Ojibway Native American White Buffalo Totem by Kevin and Tanner Gadomski

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This Totem Figure is a limited edition creation by Kevin Gadomski and his son Tanner. Each Totem Figure is hand signed, Dated and is a numbered edition. This is The White Buffalo and is number 61 of 100 of this limited edition. Tanners native heritage is from the Turtle Clan of the Grand Portage Band of the Ojibway, on his mothers side, whose grandmothers on both sides were full Anishinabe as well as his grandfather who was half Cree. Kevin and his son Tanner have signed and dated the Totem in 2011. The White Buffalo Totem measures approximately 20 1/4 inches tall from the base of the Totem to the top of the White Buffalo.

The Ojibway believe every animal has its own individual fits and unique talents and power. Animals were chosen as personal totems by one who hoped to gain an animals special powers through emulating that animals behavior and characteristics. Animals have the ability to sense the changes of the world, the seasonal changes and the coming of things.

One summer so long ago that nobody knows how long, the people were starving. Early one morning the chief sent two of his young men to hunt for game. They searched everywhere but could find nothing. Seeing a high hill, they decided to climb it in order to look over the whole country. Halfway up, they saw something coming toward them from far off. As it came nearer, they realized that it was a beautiful young woman, more beautiful than any they had ever seen, it was White Buffalo Woman. The White Buffalo Woman said "Good things I am bringing, a message I carry for your people from the buffalo nation. Go back to the camp and tell the people to prepare for my arrival. After four days they saw the White Buffalo Woman approaching, carrying her bundle before her. Her wonderful white buckskin dress shone from afar. Halting before the chief, she now opened the bundle which contained the sacred pipe. The White Buffalo Woman showed the people how to use the pipe. She filled it with tobacco and walked around the lodge four times. This represented the circle without end, the sacred hoop, the road of life. The woman placed a dry buffalo chip on the fire and lit the pipe with it. This was the fire without end, the flame to be passed on from generation to generation. She told them that the smoke rising from the bowl was breath, the living breath of the great Grandfather Mystery. The White Buffalo Woman then spoke to the women, telling them that it was the work of their hands and the fruit of their bodies which kept the people alive. "You are from the mother earth," she told them. "What you are doing is as great as what warriors do." As she left, she spoke on last time to the chief, saying, "Remember, this pipe is very sacred. Respect it and it will take you to the end of the road. The four ages of creation are in me, I am the four ages. I will come to see you in every generation cycle. I shall come back to you." The sacred woman then took leave of the people, saying, " Toksha ake wacinyanitin ktelo, I shall see you again." The people saw her walking off in the same direction from which she had come. As she went, she stopped and rolled over four times. The first time, she turned into a black buffalo, the second into a brown one, the third into a red one, and finally, the fourth time she rolled over, she turned into a white female buffalo calf. A white buffalo is the most sacred living thing you could ever encounter. As soon as she had vanished, buffalo in great herds appeared, allowing themselves to be killed so the people might survive.

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SKU #223899