It's an Omen!!
 

Albino Deer, sighted Sunday 17-Oct-2004, out in front of the nuthouse. Could he have been there to lift the curse?

Thanks to my coworker Rick T. who was smart enough to have a digital camera in his car.

Second shot.

Well, isn't that something? So...are there any Native American harbingers associated with a deer in the same way that there is with a buffalo?

I know there isn't a Ted Nugent song about a Great White Deer...

Cool! That's in front of the nuthouse? Looks heavenly--all bucolic and restful...ah, I may just go crazy... :biggrinje

That's probably because Ted prepared it with a black raspberry sauce instead. (I understand that there is a prohibition against hunting white deer, that's what one of my coworkers was saying anyway)

The deer are to the Eastern Woodlands Indians as the Buffalo is to the Plains Tribes, so it is likely that there are legends that refer to it.

Unfortunately most of them have been either assimilated or killed off and many of the teachings are lost. I do have emails out to a couple of people who might know.

I might also give a try at emailing the Lenni Lenape Musuem in Allentown, just in case.

SIDE NOTE: Miracle, the White Buffalo, died recently, after having fulfilled the prophecy (born white, and then shifted through color phases of each of the rest of the directions ... yellow, red, and black.)

We Anglo descendants have done a pretty darn good job of assimilation, elimination and just plain killing off of pretty much everything that wasn't Caucasian, Christian and European, haven't we?

Sad, as these so-called "primitive" cultures seem to have a much better handle on survival and a better relationship with the natural world than we do.

They had a better handle on survival because they had to..........or not survive. They had to be in touch with nature to avail themselves of all the early warning they could get. When you live basically outside, weather is a life or death force.
The "Caucasian, Christian and European" people spend much of their time outside farming and forageing but had an "inside" for shelter from weather and critters.
I think the "white" mans solution is much smarter. It works for me. Why adapt to a threat when you can minimize it.
As far as a better relationship with the natural world, again survival.
A primative and nomadic lifestyle requires knowing how the things around you can help or hurt. That knowledge was lost to those that didn't need it.
The Indians used what they could kill or forage and when it was no longer available they moved on. The area recovered because the Indians were small populations doing minimal permanant damage. That lifesyle can't be sustained by larger groups.
When the indians were made aware of and given access to, guns, iron axes, cookware and machine woven textiles, they leaped at them, Their lifestyle was always by necessity not by choice.

BTW, that second picture looks more like a goat. :confused:

That's what a couple of cops that were looking at the pictures tonight also said, however, some of the non-photographed sightings were made by an individual who hunts. He confirms it as a deer.

I know! It was a Satyre, looking for you, probably. :biggrin:

I can't tell.....does that second pic show a rack on that white steaksandwich.

You'd have to put one right in it's ear or eye to save that nice hide.

Nice pic Wolf.

Any sightings of white bears there? How about white turkeys?

Yes, it does. He's a spike.

I vote goat. Your hunter wasn't from Jersey was he?

Good point. Wolf, shoot the sonofabitch next time ya see em. We need some
closeup pics for verification.

I would say goat. That critter appears to have a most un-deerlike tail, plus in relation to the rows of corn in the background, its a pretty small animal. Also, a deer would have much longer legs in proportion to its body. There is a species of deer native to parts of Europe and Asia called the "fallow deer" (Dama dama ) which has a commonly occuring white phase. Some were brought to the US and now roam near the Argonne Lab outside of Chicago. It's possible, I suppose, that one might have strayed down to your part of the world, but unlikely since they prefer to remain in herds. By the application of all of the above and Occam's razer, I'd have to vote "goat"!

Now that's just crazy talk. It's obviously the mystical white deer of great fortune and anyone lucky enough to see it will inherit the earth after the rapture, or be given the choice of amazing sex forever.(duh) :D