Grantee Profile

Texas Tribal Buffalo Project

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5 Grants
$149,000 Total Awarded
2022 - 2025 Years

Awarded Grants

2025

Southern Plains Buffalo Restoration and Native Prairie Rival

2025 Southern Plains Buffalo Restoration and Native Prairie Rival

$50,000
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Funding Area

Description

This project supports the restoration of buffalo and native grasslands in the Southern Plains to revitalize Indigenous foodways, strengthen land stewardship, and rebuild a buffalo-based economy rooted in cultural sovereignty, ecological balance, and community well-being.

2023

NAFSI

2023 NAFSI

$10,000
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Description

This project will enable Texas Tribal Buffalo Project to increase their capacity to support a Meat Manager to increase the accessibility of a traditional food source, the Buffalo, for Indigenous Lineal Descendants across Texas.

2023

Reviving a Traditional Food Source: Addressing Accessibility of Buffalo Meat Across Texas

2023 Reviving a Traditional Food Source: Addressing Accessibility of Buffalo Meat Across Texas

$10,000
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Community Partners

Inter-Tribal

Description

This project will utilize a mobile freezer unit to distribute buffalo meat, and essentially increase the availability of traditional food sources across Texas Indigenous communities.

2023

Texas Tribal Buffalo Project – Grant Title

2023 Texas Tribal Buffalo Project – Grant Title

$47,000
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Community Partners

Other

Description

The Texas Tribal Buffalo Project exists to establish Food Sovereignty and reconnect Texas Tribal people to the Buffalo. We are a community development organization using the Buffalo and Indigenous knowledge to create access to healthy food, resources, and cultural education opportunities.

2022

Creating Sustainable Foodways through Regenerative Herd Management

2022 Creating Sustainable Foodways through Regenerative Herd Management

$32,000
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Community Partners

Other

Description

Our outlined project will seek to achieve the following overall goal: to provide Indigenous communities in South Central Texas with increased access to food and education surrounding traditional foodways.