VISION.
The Texas Tribal Buffalo Project is committed to healing the generational trauma of Lipan Apache descendants and other native nations bordering traditional Lipan Apache ranges. These ranges mimic the ancestral buffalo ranges of the southern plains. The state of Texas has prospered and grown to be an Agriculture and natural resource powerhouse in the nation. While this has happened through the generations the native descendants have had force relocation, suffered massacres and been severely traumatized. We however are a proud and strong nation still, even displaced in our own homelands. Just as the buffalo have been displaced from their southern ranges. We aim to provide a pathway to heal our people, our relatives, including the buffalo.
MISSION.
Texas Tribal Buffalo Project, exists to reconnect Texas Indigenous Lineal Descendents to each other as relatives as well as the Iyane’e as our relative. We are aligned with the International Buffalo Treaty and other Buffalo Lifeway movements.
1) TTBP first priority is soil, grass and water health 2) TTBP offers quality bison meat and products to enhance people’s health and lives. 3) TTBP Promoting health and well being of Texas Indigenous Lineal Descendents.
4) TTBP Providing all peoples of Texas, a chance to interact and understand the iYANE’E/buffalo and the native peoples of Texas history and culture.
AND MUCH MORE!
VALUES.
Prayer - acknowledging Creator and giving thanks for being alive; Treat each other as relatives, acknowledge kinships, breathe life into our people; Work ethic - creating a way out of Western, European way of living, using God given gifts to create sources of income for ourselves and our families; Take care of self, family and community in that order; Taking care of the soil - healthy grass, healthy buffalo, healthy people.
