Conducted by Calvin Fast Wolf
(Oglala Lakota)

Saturday, January 13, 2001 10am to Noon

Buffalo Paddock
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA

In 1890, the year of the Wounded Knee atrocity,
two buffalo cows and one buffalo bull were brought
from the Great Plains to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

In the Winter Count of 2000,
it is recorded that one of their descendents died.

Buffalo Paddock
New visitors to the park are often startled when confronted with the park's herd of Bison,
located along John F. Kennedy Drive across from the Anglers Lodge.
The current herd is descended from two cows named Sarah Bernhardt and Princess,
and a bull named Ben Harrison, bought by the Park Commission in 1890.
Maps, Text and Photographs Copyright ©1998 David Gardner (www.lightight.com). All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Used with permission.

The Buffalo Paddock is located near the western end of Golden Gate Park.
It is within the large fenced in area between North Lake and Spreckels Lake,
sort of at the corner of Chain of Lakes Drive East and John F. Kennedy Drive.
It is the right-most red dot on the map below.