The Indigenous Buffalo Research Institute (IBRI) works to promote implementation of the Buffalo Treaty, its values, and its periodic resolutions. The Institute takes a holistic eco-cultural approach to achieving this goal through initiatives in education, conservation, culture, economic, health, and research. Our common goal is to welcome back the Buffalo, to live among us once again in safe spaces across their historical homeland, to continue their essential ecological roles, and to lead us in nurturing our land, plants, water, other animals, and our cultures.
The Institute contributes to transformative change by building Buffalo Consciousness, a model whereby Buffalo and Indigenous peoples together recover vital places in the landscape and its future. This is all about relationships and connections: between people and nature; and between Indigenous peoples and the dominant society through agreeing to live once more with the Buffalo.
