#SupportNativeRanchers
Most recently, our range ecologist team visited Chuck Jacobs of Tatanka Badlands Enterprise, based on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

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October 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
We send a newsletter on the last Wednesday of every month. We highlighted our visit to the Fort Belknap Indian Community. Read: tankafund.org/read-our-newsletters/our-first-tribal-buffalo-partnership
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September 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
It's the last Friday of the month! Are you more 4:59 or 5:00? Either way, your continued support helps Buffalo rise up where they belong...
And keeps them snarky. 😉
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September 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Jayme Murray, Buffalo herd manager for Cheyenne River Buffalo Company, shared the reality of managing a conservation herd as a private rancher. Every challenge falls on them. Partnerships like Tanka Fund become essential.
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September 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Video: David & Patra Wise’s Dancing Crane Ranch on the Fond du Lac Reservation. With new fencing complete, their Buffalo now roam the full land made possible through collective effort with NRCS, Duluth Whole Foods Co-op, & community support. #TankaFund #BuffaloConservation #SupportNativeRanchers
August 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
David Wise (Ojibwe) with Dancing Crane Ranch, one of our rancher partners, talks about how his land on the Fond du Lac Reservation in Sawyer, MN, has changed since receiving Buffalo.

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August 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Maybe taking in every bit of the day is better than rushing through it. And as always, you can support returning Buffalo to Native lands, lives, & economies by visiting tankafund.org/donate.

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August 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It's #TradishTuesday! The #Lakota word wówačhaŋtognake. Generosity w/o expectation. Buffalo gave everything so the people could live. We honor that teaching by restoring Buffalo to Native lands, lives, & economies. tankafund.org/donate

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July 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
What started as a work assignment turned into something much deeper for David Wise (Ojibwe). He discovered a powerful connection to Chief Buffalo — an iconic 19th-century Ojibwe leader. Read more: www.tankafund.org/our-stories/...

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Our Rancher Partners: Patra and David Wise — TANKA FUND
David Wise (Ojibwe), co-owner of Native Wise LLC, discovered his ancestral connection to Chief Buffalo during a work project that became a personal calling. Guided by a dream, he and his wife Patra be...
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June 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We’re honored to be named a 2025 Wildseeds Fund grantee.
Wildseeds uplifts frontline stories and backs those reclaiming food, land, and culture through justice-centered organizing.

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June 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🦬 Still Hump Day? Buffalo don’t stop. That hump? It’s all muscle — lets them plow through snow to find food. You’re almost through too.

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May 22, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Buffalo aren’t livestock. They were central to Plains tribes’ spiritual practices and economies. We have been working to provide animals, grants & technical assistance to Native American Buffalo caretakers: tankafund.org/donate.

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May 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Calving season is one of the most important and symbolic times of year for Buffalo herds and for the communities working to restore them.

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Our Stories — TANKA FUND
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May 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
For Gail Uses The Knife is a Lakota woman from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Gail is one of Tanka Fund’s newest rancher partners.This is the first time in 200 years Buffalo have lived on her land. Read: tankafund.org/ranchers

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May 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It's calving season! Usually between mid-April thru July. Some of our rancher partners are getting calves already! This pic comes from Brendan Siers of Double S Ranch on the #RosebudRez in SD.
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April 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM