GOSHEN, Conn. — The birth of a white bison, among the rarest of animals, is bringing American Indians who consider it a sacred event to celebrate at one of the least likely of places, a farm in New England.

Hundreds of people, including tribal elders from South Dakota, are expected to attend naming ceremonies this month at the northwestern Connecticut farm of Peter Fay, a fourth-generation Goshen farmer.

American Indians in the area have come with gifts of tobacco and colored flags for Fay and the bull calf since it was born there a month ago. Fay plans to offer his hay field as a campsite for the expected crowds.

“They say it’s going to bring good things to all people in the world,” Fay said. “How can you beat that? That’s the way I look at it.”

Connecticut farms host only about 100 bison, a tiny fraction of the populations in Western states, such as South Dakota, the home of Sioux tribes that attach the greatest spiritual meaning to white bison.

Fay, whose family traditionally stuck to dairy farming, took on bison four years ago as a hobby. The calf, born June 16, is off-white — not an albino. The Associated Press