The Buffalo show us that we are a part of the Earth, not separate from it, and the work Tribal nations have been doing since time immemorial is essential to the future we all share.
#earth #windriver #buffalo #bison #stewardship
April is Earth Month. 🌻 It's a time to look at our wonderful planet and build a better relationship with our animal and plant relatives.
Pick up an extra piece of litter, join in a community clean-up day, or make a donation to your favorite conservation organization.
This winter, we've been focusing on youth. Building youth confidence with fishing, crafting, hunting, and meat processing is a part of what we do – what Buffalo bring with them.
Here are a couple of snapshots from the last couple of months.
📷 Jeremy Molt, Education and Culture Coordinator
We are pleased to announce that we've hired Jeremy Molt (Kenienkehaka Nation) as our Education and Culture Coordinator. He has a passion for teaching traditional values and self-determination to Tribal youth.
“Our obligations and our loyalty have to be to the earth, and they have to be to our sense of community and to our people and our relations.”
~ John Trudell
Buffalo are excellent at moving through large drifts. Thick winter coats with fine undercoats that wick away water help keep them dry, and their large humps act like a roof on a well-insulated house.
📷 Albert Mason Jr.
The Indian Buffalo Management Act is bipartisan and essential to Buffalo restoration in the United States.
Learn more about the bill here ----> www.itbcbuffalonation.org/legislative-...
Today, we celebrate how exciting 2025 has been.
Please consider a donation that will have a lasting impact for generations to come.
Donate: lnkd.in/gDuYM9Wu
We are sending out physical copies of our forthcoming, first ever, annual report.
If you are interested in getting a physical copy you have a few days left to sign up!
Follow this link: windriverbuffalo.org/annual-report/
Thank you from all of us at Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative to all who came to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday. From the Wyoming Outdoor Council's Tribal Conservation Summit to the Buffalo Bash that evening, we loved seeing everyone.
We had roughly 200 visitors throughout the day!
Happy Autumnal Equinox! It's the first day of fall 🍂⛅🍁
In the Shoshone language, the word for fall is yepani and in Arapaho it's tooyouni'.
Here are some Buffalo photos from this morning.
The Buffalo are not the only animals at WRTBI. These are some of the candid shots from our field cams capturing pictures of deer, moose, and cranes.
The rut here at Buffalo Camp is finally winding down. For about two weeks the male Buffalo have been competing against each other for mates. Often males won't eat and all they do is fight.🥊💥🥇
#windriver #buffalo #ruttingseason
Buffalo on the brain.
#landback #rematriation #windriverindianreservation #buffalo #lizard
In the warm weather of summer Buffalo eat mostly grasses, but in a pinch they are known to eat mosses, lichen, bark, and some wildflowers. 💐
Thank you for supporting us here at the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative.
#buffalo #windriver #summer
Music played as youth attended workshops about storytelling, culture, painting, and the Arapaho language. Ho hoú to all the partners and volunteers.
Last week, the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative participated in the Northern Arapaho 477 Biixooo3eitiit Program's first Youth Conference! There were many activities throughout the two-day event hosted in Central Wyoming College's Intertribal Center.
Storytelling, tradition, and song were front and center at the National Geographic Photo Camp last week here at the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative.
hohóu to National Geographic!
📸 Jonah Jensen, Jackson Taylor, Kenyan SunRhodes, Corey Beydler, Kesek Waupoose.
Summer is well underway and the calves are growing up so fast here at WRTBI headquarters.
We've welcomed 34 calves this year to the Eastern Shoshone herd.
Thanks to Nell Davis for the photos!
#summer #windriver #buffalosummer
We are the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Our goal is to restore traditional connections with Buffalo by putting them back on the land as wildlife.
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#rematriation #wildlife #windriverreservation
