Out in the field with our ranchers
The Texas Tribal Iyanee'/Buffalo Project in Waelder, Texas, is one of our rancher partners and will be featured in our upcoming mini docuseries. We recently visited the project and met the team. The Texas Tribal Buffalo Project is a non-profit committed to healing the generational trauma of Lipan Apache descendants and other native nations bordering traditional Lipan Apache ranges. See more photos at the link below.
Help us reach our goal
We have been working behind the scenes interviewing and shooting footage of
our rancher partners and their operations across the U.S. as part of a docuseries set to be released in June.
For nearly 10 years now, Tanka Fund has been the only organization that works solely with and financially funds Native American family- and community-owned Buffalo ranches across all U.S.-based tribes.
Tanka Fund’s rancher partners now represent more than 1,800 head of Buffalo over 100,000 acres of land. Our 5-year goal is to increase that to 500,000 acres and 5,000 Buffalo or more.
Help us reach our goal and bring more Buffalo home.
Tanka Fund shares mission at National Tribal Land Association Conference
Tanka Fund team members Arnell D. Abold, Zintkala Eiring and Janét Moore attended the 13th Annual National Tribal Land Association Conference (NTLA) this month. NTLA and the Indian Land Tenure Foundation co-host the national conference, which gives educational information on the latest issues facing tribes as well as provides an opportunity to network with others working on Native land-related issues.
Winner drawn for Tanka Fund blanket
During the conference, the Tanka Fund participated in an NTLA raffle and held a drawing for our 2nd Tanka Fund Limited Edition Blanket, pictured below, and our winner is Davina R. Jim of Washington.
Burn training and soil testing
Tanka Fund rancher partner Blake Follis conducted a prescribed burn on his land
in Meriden, Kansas, earlier in April. Tanka Fund’s Zintkala Eiring, range ecologist, and Janét Moore, assistant range ecologist, of our Climate Smart program were on hand to perform soil testing as part of the burn session. The burn training program, which helps ranchers with incentives for responsible grazing practices, includes:
Fire planning and design
Goals/objectives/safety
Ecology and weather
Communications
Fire break preparation
Weather and fuel types
Burn technique and safety
PPE/equipment training
Live fire skills/burning
FUNDER SPOTLIGHT: Cedar Tree Foundation
Tanka Fund funding partner Cedar Tree Foundation is a U.S.-focused family foundation created in the mid-1990s by the late pediatrician and entrepreneur, Dr. David H. Smith. Dr. Smith believed in the power of individuals and organizations to make significant changes in the world. Its current grantmaking focuses on Regenerative Grazing and Children’s Environmental Health.
DID YOU KNOW?
Bison are natural grazers — feeding on grasses and sedges in the morning as well as at night. The way that they eat the grass is by wrapping their tongue around a tuft of grass, pinching the grass off between their tongue and lower teeth, and then swallowing it practically whole. Info from nationalforests.org.
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