Buffalo Field Campaign Weekly Updates from the Field 2006/2007

I would like to respond to the recent opinion written by John Potter, "Fear, loathing over buffalo treatment." I have been criticized for my prayers for the buffalo and the Buffalo Field Campaign, and I would like to say a few things on the side of the native people who also love the buffalo, because it seems by the opinion written that the native people are doing nothing in this matter, and that opinion is not quite correct.

I agree with Potter's assessment about the cruelty that officials are implementing on the buffalo in Yellowstone Park. It is truly a shame to haze small buffalo calves in their first moments of life and their mothers recovering from the rite of birthing.

Potter has a right to fear those with guns and machines that destroy our peaceful world. We as native people understand the noise and pain of brutality. We were told about it from our elders who lived it. We feel it still in our daily lives here in Montana. We feel it in our workplaces and in our religion. We have yet to find the freedom others enjoy, though our warriors have defended this country always.

I agree with Potter that we can help those who are helping the buffalo like the Field Campaign. We can give them things, but many of us give them our prayers and we are with them in their dreams. We pray for the buffalo and the Buffalo Field Campaign.

Scott Frazier
Bozeman

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