Rocky Boy Buffalo Project/Buffalo Child Ranch

10/14/2026

Bison jailbreak🦬

This video gives a good glimpse into some of the challenges that can come with managing Bison. They are deceptively athletic for their size and their sheer strength are second to no other animal on the North American continent.

This mature bull made breaking through this metal panel look entirely too easy. We have since phased out the use of this panel design. (For obvious reasons😆).

We hope you enjoy this video.🦬

10/14/2026

The Rewilders is a film that focuses on different rewilding/reintroduction/conservation projects that are happening across the world.

Winter of 2024, then-Buffalo Technician Wyatt Caplette was asked to speak to a film crew about the 🦬 restoration work that our tribe and American Prairie do. Since its completion the film has been screened at various film festivals across the world and this past week the film was able to be released on YouTube.

We are thankful we are able to give our insight to a film that highlights how important this work is. A big thank you to The Rewilders production crew for this opportunity and for giving our work a platform to be showcased to the world on.

Here is the YouTube link to the film for anyone interested in watching. 20:30-27:08 is the part of the film that features our work.🦬

Full 38-min short documentary, The Rewilders, in 4K quality.

09/30/2026

🦬September 30th, 2026 tour🦬

Today we gave a tour to groups of students from both Rocky Boy and Box Elder High Schools. We also hosted reporters from the RTL German Television company. The reporters come to report on what our tribe has going on with our Buffalo Program, as well as how we are affected by the recent decisions by both the state and federal government to try and restrict Bison grazing on public lands.

We would like to give a thank you to both student groups from both Rocky Boy and Box Elder public schools as well as the RTL German television reporters for spending the day with us. We hope everyone learned something and enjoyed the tour!

09/25/2026

🦬2026 Native American Week Recap🦬

This week the Rocky Boy community held Native American week with various events that brought people together to acknowledge & celebrate our Native American identity, history, culture and heritage.

On Wednesday (9/23/26) we harvested a mature bull Bison from our herd.This bull was 2,000+ lbs and yielded an estimated 500+ lbs of meat. Over 100 community members were able to come and get free meat from the harvested animal. We also had KRTV news come and do a news story on the harvest.

Robin Merasty-Denny & Family held a dry meat & pemmican making demonstration using meat from the harvested animal as well.

On Friday (9/25/26) we entered into the Native American Week Community Parade where we threw out Pemmican bags with stickers, Shirts, and candy to the parade attendees.

We want to give a shoutout to anyone who supported or attended our events. We are thankful to our community and all the organizers for coming together and celebrating another successful Native American Week. Looking forward to next year! 🦬

09/25/2026

09/24/2026

Thank you KRTV Great Falls for covering our Native American Week Harvest and helping show people what we’re about!

A buffalo harvest at Rocky Boy is providing more than food for the community. It is also helping reconnect people with a herd that returned to the reservation in 2021 and a tradition deeply rooted in Chippewa-Cree culture.

Learn about the hunt in the comments

09/23/2026

Buffalo has arrived to the help lodge! Going to start skinning and butchering here soon

09/21/2026

🦬2026 Native American Week Harvest Plans🦬
On Wednesday (9/23/26) we are planning to harvest a Bison for Rocky Boy Community’s Native American Week. Meat from the harvested animal will be given away for free to community members at the Help Lodge.

Any and all are welcome to attend! 🦬