The Backstreet Cultural Museum will host a special event celebrating the return to the museum of the 1994 New Orleans Proclamation declaring August 27th as White Buffalo Day as well as other archival material. On hand will be special guests Cyril and Gaynielle Neville, Big Chief Victor Harris, the Spirit of Fi Yi Yi, folk artist Ashton Ramsey and other culture bearers. These artifacts were mailed to Arizona by the late Goat Carson, who described himself as a renegade Cherokee, for safekeeping following Katrina. His nephew, historian Jacob Devaney will be bringing the items to the event as well as his knowledge to discussions.
The 19-generations long prophecy of the appearance of a White Buffalo was proclaimed by a “sacred woman” to be “by way of the Peace Pipe” a sign of unity and hope. A white buffalo was born in Janesville, Wisconsin on August 20, 1994 during the same period that Goat Carson and New Orleans Big Chief Allison “Tootie” Montana of the Yellow Pocahontas were planning a Sacred Medicine Gathering and Pipe Ceremony in Congo Square. It took a week – until — August 27th – before word of the birth of the calf named “Miracle” circled the nation and became the focus of the New Orleans ceremony.
As founder and curator of the Backstreet Cultural Museum, Sylvester “Hawk” Francis, whose death on September 1, 2020 will be remembered and birth on September 11, 1946 celebrated, became fully engaged in the White Buffalo Day ceremonies.
The event will take place Friday, Sept. 5, 2025 from 1-3 p.m. at the museum which is located at 1531 St. Philip Street, New Orleans.
