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Buffalo Are Back: Founder Lucille Contreras Featured on Quivira Coalition’s Down to Earth Podcast
Buffalo Treaty: Texas Tribal Buffalo Project is Honored to Become a Signatory
The Texas Tribal Buffalo Project (TTBP), dedicated to healing the generational trauma of Lipan Apache descendants and other Native nations, has announced its intention to become a signatory of the Buffalo Treaty. This commitment aligns with TTBP’s mission to restore the historical relationship and cultural identity inherent in the Lipan Apache-bison connection. Through initiatives like intertribal internships and community programs, TTBP seeks to make bison products accessible and provide educational experiences that reconnect people with the land and their Indigenous heritage.
Making History
As an Indigenous woman-led movement, Texas Tribal Buffalo Project is reintroducing rematriation and kinship between Texas Indigenous communities and connection to our buffalo relatives.
Lucille Contreras CEO and Founder of Texas Tribal Bison Project Speaks at The 54th Comparative Literature Symposium “Perspectives on Water on the Llano Estacado”
See To Act, has been dedicated to providing to the world, access to a repository of filmed stories to help indigenous people reconnect with their own culture, traditions and families.
Lucille and her son Joséhuauhtli, from the Lipan Apache tribe in central Texas lend their voices by sharing their own personal experiences with the world.
The Texas Tribal Buffalo Project in Waelder sits on 77 acres with 15 head of bison. After nearly three centuries, the buffalo are roaming once again.
Meet Lucille Contreras, an Apache woman reintroducing bison to Texas as a way to revive traditional Native culture.
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A panel regarding the importance of restoring Indigenous agriculture, as well as work done by Indigenous leaders in the space. Featuring Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson, Helga Garcia, and Lucille Contreras.
For this lecture, Lucille Contreras, enrolled member of the Lipan Apache, will talk about the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project (TTBP). TTBP is working to honor their ancestors and inspire a reclamation of Lipan Apache language, traditional food, and other cultural practices through restoration of their relatives, the buffalo, on their homelands in south central Texas.
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