Restoring the American Bison to its rightful range

http://www.intertribalbison.org/default.asp
InterTribal Bison Cooperative

I was going to order some meat for my mother:

Buffalo Meat

Please contact the following Tribes for price list
Pte Hca Ka, Inc. (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe) at 605-733-2547 and Little Rockies (Fort Belknap Tribe)at 406-654-5538

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Brain Tanning Video

This video details the steps of traditional tanning a large head-on bison robe. It reveals how a robe with the head attached is laced, fleshed, sinew-sewn, brained and rubbed soft to complete the historic Native American wearing robe.

Seriously - my parents walk a few blocks from their home and go have buffalo burgers every once in a while....and they live in nyc! I am sending these links:


http://www.gprc.org/Buffalo_Commons.html
Buffalo Commons

EVERBODY gets into the act!
The Buffalo Commons engages Prairie/Plains people to get invested in the healthful restoration of their communities and local environment wherever they live. Small businesses, housewives, big landholders, small landholders, inner-city children, Indian elders, cities, suburbs, towns and villages can all take pride in the unique identity of being and belonging to our Great Plains region, and working together in a shared sense of community, rather than the old way of every man (or woman) for him/herself.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/buffalo/strength.html
A SYMBOL OF STRENGTH

This is a beautiful website! I wonder if the teenages appreciate the land - or all want to move to the big city (where the grass is always greener)

I really think this is a good thing not just for the tribes coming together, but as an example for all people to put down their weapons (or differences) and fight for a common cause. There would probably be many more vegetarians if more people acknowledged the spirit in animals.

The South Dakota-based group believes that "reintroduction of the buffalo to tribal lands will help heal the spirit of both the Indian people and the buffalo . . . To reestablish healthy buffalo populations on tribal lands is to reestablish hope for Indian people." So far, more than 40 tribes have joined the effort, which has helped create a collective herd of almost 10,000 animals.

The "buffalo people," as some tribes called the animals, were revered for their power and the good fortune they brought the tribe. "I really believe, like the old people do, that these [animals] have a spirit," says Gerard Baker, a Plains Indian who appears in SACRED BUFFALO PEOPLE, a documentary film made by the Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium in 1992. "When you shoot them, you can almost feel that spirit around you for a while."