Bringing Back the Bison: South Dakota Tribe Harvests Meat for Members
Decades of tribal work to restore tribal buffalo herds paid off when the federal government shutdown disrupted SNAP benefits nationwide. In South Dakota, the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe distributed hundreds of pounds of bison meat to support families, demonstrating the power of food sovereignty and living off the land. From tribal herds to urban relief efforts led by the NDN Collective, Native communities are reclaiming traditional food systems, strengthening resilience, and using buffalo restoration to nourish their people once again.
✍️ Reported by Amelia Schafer
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@lukewarmwater9185
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
That is a good O.I.T. (old indin trick) to use the round bail lifter on the feed truck to harvest bison.
@ToddNelson-b2m
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
The natives need to get back to planting the old medicine plant's the 😊
@ToddNelson-b2m
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Now the ranchers are being forced to vaccine the cattle and the dye😢
@ToddNelson-b2m
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
There are still small heards in the Midwest best and healthiest red meat on the earth should replant native grasses
@genxerfool9797
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
The best meat, in my opinion.
@deitrestolbert4951
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Need a garden or container garden to go with that meat.
@thegrandemperor9
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Native plants are important too, just not as heroic and exciting as the buffalo, but even more in peril and useful for preventing modern diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Save the Pediomelum esculentum too!
@ElizabethS.Lowell
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Respect. 🦬
@TheSnoopindaweb
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
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@Claudiarose-y3l5k
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Ekosi 🤲 WarChiefLittleFawn 🦅
@nativeandindigenuscraftcre433
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Hi thanks for good news we are happy that they are able to pervid for there own members and hunting is aloud it good thing and wish Lakota and Dakota nations good luck with everything and ict good luck with everything
@Partimepeasant
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
We lost all our hunting grounds to outfitters.
@Yoemeyaqui_apache
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
This is soooo awesome
@jazmineflores4152
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
$ 5 DOLLAR INDIANS
THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ARE DARK SKIN
NO COLONIZERS
THE SEED COMES FROM THE FATHER NOT THE MOTHER
IF YOUR LAST NAMES ARE EUROPEAN
U ARE NOT FROM THE AMERICAS
STOP THE LIES
@RAVENMOON-tq7ci
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
So glad the REAL AMERICAN culture is returning to the old ways. The USA is going to collapse, make sure you hurry and join hands with other tribes, because the idiot daemon US GOVT, and LOST colonists will try to take your food…SNAP is going to take a crap too… grow food
@ceskyvlk8469
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Im from Europe so i have no inside into this and kinda click on interesting video but… so like.. i undestand that some of there groups of people own and are like rising bison for food, but normaly rely on the state for something like food staps? And when they dont have it they live of their heards..
Im bit confused, could nayone explain to me why there isnt better managemant inside those groups that would suport their people so they wont rely on the state even if there is not any sort of crysis or whatever is going onover there? Wouldnt that help the peole more? Again, im from diferent contitnent.
@RN4LYF51
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
❤️💛🤍🖤
@QueenBDreamwalker
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Beauteous ReTurn to the original Relationship between Bison & the People is being restored! We need to be able to feed our Communities EveryWhere beyond the collapsing colonized concepts 🥳🙏🏾💜💧🌎
@VernonLongie
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
All reservations need to get the bison going thats what I would want to raise.
@DFuture_NWT
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
That's making me mighty hungry, the leanest, most nutritious meat in the world <> <> hokah!
@jnorscio
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
400 lbs meat for an entire tribe?
Thats 1 LB per member of your have 499 members? Maybe slaughter a couple bison?
@scottmcfarland2149
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
As it should be…. ALWAYS!!
@crossccologne1855
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 pm
❤
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