In alignment with the Buffalo Treaty, the Institute works to honour, recognize, and revitalize the time immemorial relationship between Indigenous people and the buffalo, and to bring buffalo back to their traditional territories. This partnership will scale the work of IBRI to increase the presence of Buffalo on the Plains and expand education and employment opportunities for Indigenous youth linked to Buffalo rematriation.
This partnership includes:
• Enhanced pathways to education through dialogues and summits with young Buffalo Champions from Indigenous communities across the plains, youth-led Buffalo Treaty events in schools, and Indigenous-led research to support Buffalo rematriation
• Employment, training and entrepreneurship through the first transborder Buffalo range and intertribal herd, the Buffalo Protector Guardians Program, an innovation lab, and other opportunities for community economic growth in alignment with the ecocultural role of Buffalo
• Storytelling and narrative change through theatrical, literary, and other creative media to increase the profile of Buffalo rematriation including the film Singing Back the Buffalo
