Tanka Fund is working to attract 16- to 26-year-olds to become Buffalo ranchers, offering training in land stewardship, marketing, and bison care.

Tanka Fund's Zintkala Eiring talks about the Climate Smart program and how it can help ranchers track the impact of the work they do to improve their land.

Video of Delaney Apple and his youth drum group, Stampede Jrs., recording traditional Lakota Buffalo songs for Tanka Fund.

Tanka Fund rancher partner Virgil Two Eagle Sr. shares his family legacy and how Tanka Fund helped make his dreams become a reality.

Dawn Sherman gives some insight to her goals as the new executive director of Tanka Fund.

Some of our private Buffalo caretaker partners explain how Tanka Fund’s work supports the animals and the independent work that they do on their family/community ranches.

Tanka Fund is dedicated to aiding rancher partners in returning Buffalo to their ancestral lands by providing necessary infrastructure. A crucial aspect of this support involves helping ranchers construct specific fencing to safely manage their Buffalo herds.

Tanka Fund rancher partner Ron Brownotter on how Tanka Fund fills a need for Native ranchers that’s not being met.

New Native Buffalo caretakers Alex and Wayne Frederick as they welcomed their first Buffalo from Tanka Fund.

What is needed to help Native caretakers expand their herds and improve the health of their lands.

VIDEO: KOTA news coverage of grand opening of Sacred Storm buffalo plant in Rapid City, SD, on July 17, 2024.

10 Years of Returning Buffalo to Native lands, lives, economies