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The Buffalo Treaty is
the course, the road to bring
all these different people and
organizations together. The
treaty uses the buffalo as

LITTLE BEARLeroy the centerpiece, the portal.

Professor, Buffalo Treaty Leader

JOIN US I-YOU-WE ARE BUFFALO. Buffalo is life and the Buffalo Way embodies
the values necessary to sustain all life on Earth—human and nonhuman.
Live the Buffalo Way Join the Wildlife Conservation Society and our community partners across
North America in reclaiming the Buffalo Way and articulating a vision for the
future that draws on the wisdom and courage of Buffalo.

We are living through some of the most heart-breaking and chaotic times
in human history. Like buffalo we need to turn into the storm, rather than
from it, and pursue the opportunity inherent in crisis. Join us in defining this
opportunity and bringing it into reality.

Add your voices to the Voices of the Buffalo Way at #IAMBuffalo.
Breathe life into the principles of the Buffalo Way: relationship, respect, rec-
iprocity, rewilding, rematriation, and reconciliation. Share ideas for how we
can all work collectively to bring this world into being. Together we can make
it so.

We also invite you to lend your voice to foundational efforts underway
in the United States to bring about the ecological and cultural restoration of
wild bison and establish wild, wide-ranging herds that have the freedom to
roam across North America, as they once did. The Department of Interior
has demonstrated visionary leadership in the launch of its 2020 Bison Con-
servation Initiative (BCI). Please write and thank Secretary Bernhardt and the
DOI Bison Working Group for their collaborative conservation leadership. Call
on the Secretary to fully resource and implement the BCI at scale. We all
need aspiration, but action is what changes the world.

Send your letters of support to both: 
1849 C Street, N.W., Washington DC 20240 and [email protected]

To learn more or contact WCS’s Rocky Mountain Program, please visit us at:
https://programs.wcs.org/rockymountains

CREDITS

DIRECTOR OF US FIELD CONSERVATION Cristina Mormorunni
DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Julie Larsen Maher, Cristina Mormorunni, Alexa Montefiore, Kelsey Pazera
PHOTOGRAPHY Julie Larsen Maher ©Wildlife Conservation Society

OTHER PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART CONTRIBUTIONS
The Herd, Martin Garretson. Denver Public Library.
Pile of American bison skulls in Detroit, MI, waiting to be ground for fertilizer or charcoal, 1892. Wikimedia Commons.
Wichita Bison Expedition arrival of bison at Wichita, OK, 1907. © Wildlife Conservation Society.
Shipping Bison to Wichita from the Bronx Zoo, 1907. © Wildlife Conservation Society.
Jimmy Santiago Baca © ????.
Bison Art ©Bobby Cotnoir.
Bison Sandstone Art ©Terry Yazzie.