Indian Prophet's Multiplication of Buffalo Meat
Published October 11, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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Millennial Star Research
While at the Cheyenne agency, a prophet announced he had been visited by dead individuals who provided him with a piece of fat buffalo meat, which the tribe had not seen for six or seven years. The following night, the prophet led a circle of dancers and, from a single wooden dish, provided every dancer with a piece of cooked meat, which did not run out despite the large number of participants.
In Their Own Words
“As an example of the miracles, I will tell you that while I was at the Cheyenne agency one of the prophets announced that on the day before he had been visited by people who had been dead for a long time, and who had brought him a piece of fat buffalo meat. Now the Indians love buffalo meat, but they have seen none of it for six or seven years. The prophet told the people that on the following night he would feed them with the buffalo meat that had been brought to him. The next night a circle was formed, and the prophet stepped into the centre with a wooden dish full of cooked meat. After a dance the dancers filled up, and to each one was given a piece of meat. Although the dancers were many and the pieces of meat few, the meat didn’t give out.”
— Unidentified witness, The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 5 January 1891 (Vol. 53, No. 1). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1891-01-05_53_1 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Full first-person account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 53, No. 1, 5 January 1891 https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1891-01-05_53_1
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