Tanka Fund launches ‘Bringing the Buffalo Home’ video series

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Tanka Fund: Bringing the Buffalo Home: The next generation of young Native ranchers

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

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Tanka Fund, a Native-led non-profit, has launched a new video series to highlight the importance of buffalo to tribal communities.

The “Bringing the Buffalo Home” series promotes efforts to recruit and support Native buffalo ranchers. The first video includes Brendan Siers of the Double S Ranch, located on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.

“They’re helping get these animals out of certain areas and bringing them back to smaller producers like ourselves — and like I like to say — is bringing them home,” Siers, who is from the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, says of Tanka Fund’s work in the video.

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The series comes as Tanka Fund, headquartered in Rapid City, celebrates the 10th anniversary its launch in 2014. A video called “The Buffalo Return: A Decade of Healing and Renewal” was released in July.

As part of its anniversary, Tanka Fund is hosting a celebration at the upcoming Black Hills Powwow in Rapid City. The powwow, which takes place October 11-13, is where the organization first launched.

“This is where we launched Tanka Fund so for us it’s closing the circle to bring everybody together again, to celebrate this 10 years and everything we’ve accomplished,” the newly named executive director Dawn Sherman says in a video posted on Tuesday.

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Sherman is a founding board member of the organization. In a video last month, she shared Tanka Fund’s goals to support 5,000 buffalo covering 500,000 acres as more animals are brought home.

“We have big goals at Tanka Fund that I intend to expand in my role as executive director,” Sherman says in the description for the video, posted July 31.

“In addition to adding more buffalo, adding new ranchers and providing grants and technical services, we are focused on the health of the animals and their impact on the land,” Sherman continues. “We are helping drive the research on what buffalo’s impact on the land really looks like and bringing that knowledge back to our rancher partners.”

An absolutely STUNNING photo from one of our rancher partners, Double S Ranch, on the Rosebud Reservation in South…
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