Rocky Boy Buffalo Project/Buffalo Child Ranch

07/28/2026

7/28/26 SCC Summer Bridge Program tour🦬

Today we gave a tour to Stone Child College’s Summer Bridge Program. The summer bridge program hosts incoming local high school juniors/seniors and recently graduated high school seniors to better prepare them for the College experience.

The group was extremely respectful and showed keen interest in all aspects of our program and the work that we do. We are glad we were able to show the buffalo herd/pasture to them and hope that they learned a thing or two!

07/21/2026

Community Feed during 2026 Rocky Boy Powwow🦬

We are happy to announce that we will be sponsoring a community feed after our men’s traditional special on Saturday (August 1st) of the 2026 Rocky Boy Powwow. The feed will be held at the Rocky Boy Buffalo Project/Buffalo Child Ranch camp and will be open to all who wish to come share a meal with us.

Looking forward to seeing everyone enjoy the powwow this year!🦬🦬🦬

07/20/2026

New buildings 7/20/26🦬

We are excited to announce the completion of our new information center & garage buildings at our pasture. It will be a little while longer until they are move in ready, but it’s an exciting step in the right direction for our program.

We would like to extend a thank you to E&B metal buildings for supplying the buildings. As well as a thank you to the Freeman Foundation & First Nations Development Institute for assistance in funding our program so we can accomplish getting these buildings erected.

It’s not easy building a program from the ground up, we realize much of what we do would not be possible if not for all the support we have received up to this point. We are thankful for that support and are looking forward to continued support and blessings for our people and our herd.

It is our hope that these buildings help keep the Chippewa Cree people’s relationship to the buffalo strong and that we are able to stage our operations from here for a long time to come. 🦬🦬🦬

07/16/2026

July 16th, 2026 herd check 🦬

Middle of summer and our herd is looking strong and healthy! We are still expecting a few calves to drop any day/week now.🦬

Bison calves are born with an orange/red coat. This coat acts as a natural camouflage that helps conceal the calves from predators. Most animals are dichromatic and cannot see the wavelengths of light that makes the color orange. Humans are trichromatic so we are able to see the wavelengths of light that make the color orange. Think of how tigers are able to stalk and ambush without being seen, or modern hunters with their orange hunting apparel. After a few months of being born the calves will lose their orange color and their coat will transition to the deeper brown/black colors that adults are known to have.

07/15/2026

Here is the full length story that was done by KRTV on our program. Shoutout to Tom Wylie for coming to visit and give us some coverage!

07/10/2026

Here is the flyer for the 2026 Rocky Boy Powwow Men’s Traditional Special that our program is sponsoring.🦬

Please share. We are looking forward to seeing all the dancers and spectators!

S/o to Shane Sangrey for creating the flyer!

07/09/2026

Public comment opportunities are open concerning the Department of the Interior and the Montana DNRC’s decisions to potentially restrict bison grazing on federal and state lands.

Voice your opinions and thoughts for the sake of the land and animals!

07/07/2026

Buffalo Child Ranch raffle🦬

Our program is doing a raffle to help fundraise for our 2026 Rocky Boy Powwow Men’s Traditional Special.

Tickets: 1 for $25 or 3 for $50 CASH ONLY

1st place prize: Buffalo Hunt
2nd place prize: Buffalo Robe
3rd place prize: Buffalo meat bundle

Message this page or get ahold of any of our program staff to get tickets and a chance to win some good prizes

Any support we get will be greatly appreciated!

07/03/2026

KRTV pasture visit July 3rd, 2026🦬

Today we hosted Tom Wylie from the KRTV news station to do a story on our program. Tom remembers being present for the initial release of the 11 Bison in 2021 and covering the event for KRTV.

We were able to take him on a tour to see the pasture and share with him the progress our herd & program have made since our establishment in 2021. Buffalo Subcommittee president Ken Morsette and Buffalo Subcommittee vice-president Wyatt Caplette gave interviews on their experience and perspective on the herd & our program.

We are thankful to Tom and KRTV for being willing to give our program & herd some coverage. Stay tuned for when that story is published! 🦬

07/03/2026

NBC story on 2026 Sundance harvest🦬

Last week we had a NBC reporter present to cover our Sundance harvest. Here is the story that was published by NBC earlier today.

The resurgence of the bison, once hunted to near extinction, is a metaphor for the Chippewa Cree Tribe’s resilience, members say.