A small stone, usually a fossil or some unknown thing in a weird shape, is called a buffalo stone. It has magic powers and gives good luck when hunting buffalo. The rock can make a sound similar to a bird, usually alerting the person who finds it that it is in fact a buffalo stone. These are usually found in prairie plains.
One weird winter all the buffalo disappeared. The snow was too deep for anyone to try to find the, so they walked the river bottoms and ravines, killing other grass grazers as they went. Eventually though, they ran out of small game and began to starve.
A man had killed a prairie rabbit, and ran home fast to tell his wife to hurry up and cook it - excited at the rare find. She went down to the river to clean it but stopped, hearing a song but seeing no birds. She located the source of song to a tree, with a weird stone jammed into the roots. She noticed some buffalo fur had been caught in the tree. Frightened at the thought of being alone and weaponless with wild buffalo, she went no further. As she turned away, the singing stopped. The stone spoke now, and asked to be taken to her village where she should teach her people the song she heard. The stone told her to pray for this starvation to end and for the buffalo to return.
The woman did what the rock said to do, telling her husband of the events that just happened. The wife taught the chiefs the song, and they all prayed. Soon after, they heard noise of trampling buffalo and that the stone was magic. This was the first buffalo stone found.
The buggalo are a fictional creature that are sort of like the buffalo to the native americans as the buggalo are to the native martians on the TV show Futurama. Image source. I had a typo when I first wrote buffalo and wrote buggalo, so why not include a picture of them.
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