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Indigenous food ways are making their way to the cafeteria.
Join us as we delve into the rich, sustainable practices of Texas's indigenous peoples, who have maintained a deep connection with the land long before it was called Texas. At our recent Texas Farm to School Learning Collaborative, Sustainable Food Center had the honor of hosting the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project (TTBP), who shared their inspiring work teaching traditional and indigenous foodways in the classroom and cafeteria.
Concept for the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project Supports Reconciliation and Re-establishment
Reconciliation and Re-establishment: Empowering Communities through the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project
'Feel the energy, feel the healing': Woman returns buffalo to native land east of San Antonio
Restoration Reverberates: Returning Buffalo to Native Lands near San Antonio
LABELED ‘HISPANIC’
Revolutionizing Identity: The Journey of Lipan Leaders in Reclaiming Texas Native Heritage
Coming Home
Revitalizing Heritage: Lucille Contreras' Journey Bringing Buffalo to Texas Native American Land
Texas Tribal Buffalo Project is Honored to Become a Signatory
Texas Tribal Buffalo Project Joins the Buffalo Treaty: A Commitment to Conservation and Cultural Restoration
Five Buffalo Returned to Lipan Apache Lands
Restoring Heritage: Five Bison Returned to Lipan Apache Lands in Texas, Contributing to Nationwide Effort by the Nature Conservancy
Texas Tribal Buffalo Project
Strengthening Tribal Sovereignty: Restoring Bison Kinship with Indigenous Nations in Texas Southern Plains
TEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT: TIMELESS METHODS, NOVEL OPPORTUNITIES
Empowering Food Sovereignty: The Texas Tribal Buffalo Project's Mission to Reconnect Communities with Bison
Return of buffalo to Texas’ Lipan Apache tribe symbolizes an era of healing
The Texas Tribal Buffalo Project: Restoring Buffalo-Raising and Herding to Indigenous Tribes Across the State
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Podcast Interviews
With Lucille Contreras, Executive Director, Texas Tribal Buffalo Project
Down to Earth Podcast “Lipan Apache: Bringing Back the Buffalo in Texas”
KGNU Hemispheres interview with Winona LaDuke and Lucille Contreras
Hidden F&B Podcast with Lucille Contreras
BBC Sounds “Restoring the Buffalo to the Buffalo Nation”
Native American Calling Podcast “Tribal Bison Restoration”
Healing Generations Podcast “Yelders: Lucille R. Contreras - The Power of the Buffalo”
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 Band of Texas, 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.
Texas Tribal Buffalo Project
Reconnecting with Iyanee’ camp 2022
Rising together in strength for the future generations
The Return of Buffalo in Texas Healing Texas Indigenous Communities