I just scanned the list of posts to see if I responded to this way back when, but this thread escaped my attention.

This is about a song and a television program that represent cultural appropriation. Full stop. Yes, the white buffalo is an important symbol in American Indian plains cultures, but the romance slathered on by a television program and other Euramerican interpreters of the legend is just that. Just so you keep in mind that authenticity was never a part of the television program or modern film representations of a white bison.