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#SupportTheReturn 2020 Calendar of Events
October 21, 2020News

#SupportTheReturn 2020 Calendar of Events

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with Tanka Fund. Over the course of the next month, Tanka Fund is hosting a series of interactive virtual events open to the public to support the return of the…
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Tanka Fund’s Regranting is Restoring Buffalo to Native Lands — and You Can Support the Return
October 15, 2020News

Tanka Fund’s Regranting is Restoring Buffalo to Native Lands — and You Can Support the Return

by Trudy Ecoffey, Tanka Fund Executive Director “The buffalo represents the people and the universe and should always be treated with respect, for was he not here before the two-legged peoples, and is he not…
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Buffalo Blogs: Moving Forward from the Losses of the Past
September 17, 2020News

Buffalo Blogs: Moving Forward from the Losses of the Past

by Trudy Ecoffey, Tanka Fund Executive Director U.S. Army General Phillip Sheridan described how killing the Indians’ commissary to subdue them sealed the fate of both the bison and the Native people who relied on…
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Buffalo Blogs: Breeding Season & the New Normal
August 12, 2020News

Buffalo Blogs: Breeding Season & the New Normal

by Trudy Ecoffey, Tanka Fund Executive Director “We don’t do anything with the older bulls. They are not butchered. (They are) no longer breeding stock, their time has passed, and they are just left to…
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Buffalo Blogs: Returning Balance to the Earth
July 22, 2020News

Buffalo Blogs: Returning Balance to the Earth

by Trudy Ecoffey, Tanka Fund Executive Director My friend, They will return again. All over the Earth They are returning again Ancient songs of the Earth They are returning again. Oglala Lakota, Crazy Horse (cited…
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