Medicine Fish Corporation

This project will strengthen Menominee-led stewardship of land, water, forest, and wildlife, including buffalo relatives, through traditional knowledge. This project will support research, habitat restoration, and youth engagement that ultimately advances climate adaptation and cultural health.

This grant supports the 34th annual sturgeon feast and celebration powwow commemorating Namaew Kewaemakat Piataetuaq, the sturgeon are coming home.

Medicine Fish Corporation will celebrate their recently approved 550-acre expansion and introduction of 19 new buffalo to Menominee homelands

Our project supports the restoration of approximately 900 acres of agriculturally converted lands on the Menominee Reservation, re-establishing native ecosystems to create a sustainable, healthy landscape that provides opportunities for community buffalo harvest.

With this funding, Medicine Fish will conduct a feasibility study for dam removal on the Wolf River, once a critical spawning ground for their relative the sturgeon, which sustained the Menominee people for generations.

This grant will support the release of 10 buffalo relatives to Menominee tribal lands.

Restoring Buffalo to the land, enhances biodiversity. As a keystone species, Buffalo positively influence ecosystems. Educating future leaders on their ecological significance fosters a symbiotic relationship with nature. Leveraging this relationship, alongside controlled fire practices, harmonizes land stewardship and ecological conservation for the benefit of the Earth.