"Buffalo Creation" Chief Sitting Bull
Sence its creation this sculpture Been exhibited at the fllowing places: Well Travled!
- The Plaza Galleries, Whistler, B.C. , Canada
- Art of Man Galleries, Chateau Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
- Hands Across the Pacific, Tower Hall, Funabori, Tokyo, Japan
- Hands Across the Pacific, Cultural Center, Gimcheon, Korea
- Primary Elements Gallery, Cannon Beach, Oregon, USA
- Its final home is at my Daughter and Son in Law's Home in Las Vegas, Nevada , USA
Gerald's Story Behind the Sculpture
Buffalo Creation (Chief Sitting Bull) (1999)
Subject: Chief Sitting Bull & the Buffalo Creation Story
Dimensions (inches): 14 x 10 x 10
Medium: African Pyrophyllite on a Black Granite Base.
Description: Sitting Bull was born in 1831 at Grand River, South Dakota, the only son of a Hunk-Papa Sioux warrior called Returns-Again, a mystic, who on occasion, was said, could communicator with animals. As an adolescent, he became aware, like his father, of special ties to the spirit world. While taking a rest during a hunting foray, he dreamed that a grizzly bear was poised over him and that a bird nearby was urging him to play dead. Opening his eyes and discovering that the bear and bird were real, he followed the dream's advice and froze. The grizzly, after sniffing him, wandered away.
At age 25 Sitting Bull became leader of the Strong Hearts, the Sioux's elite Military Society. In his mid-thirties he was designated a Medicine Man and Chief of the Sioux people by virtue of his skill as a negotiator and his ability as an orator.
Sitting Bull did not take part in Custer’s defeat at the Little Big Horn on the 25th of June 1876, that fateful day he was in the hills praying to his Creator for help to defeat his enemy. Two days after the battle 4000 of the Sioux people escaped north to take refuge in Canada, near the Cypress Hills.
When roaming the hills as a boy, I could still feel his presence.
The Buffalo emerging from all sides of the sculpture represent the provider of all things to maintain their Native way of life. Story tellers put it this way:
"The buffalo came from the center of the earth through a hole the Creator opened to release them. Coyote, the Trickster, saw his chance to create some havoc. By drawing the Creator's attention away from the hole with a fake emergency he would forget to close it, allowing millions of buffalo to escape. To punish the people for not protecting their land from the destruction of the white intruder, the Creator sent the buffalo back down the hole to the center of the earth to where they came from."
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