OUR WORK AND WHO ARE BUFFALO WEAVERS?
WILDER BUFFALO
Wilder Buffalo is a monthly event held outside on the land. We pick a new urban wilds location for each event and are joined by two new community guests each time. As a group we practice holding inclusive space where we practice deepening our collective resources for transformation and the cultivation of anti-racist and ecologically reciprocal culture. Click the button below to send us an email requisition to be added to the invite list
CLIMATE GRIEF
In collaboration with schools, non profit partners and community groups we use poetry, song, and story to contextualize and then heal the grief we are collectively experiencing as a result of climate change.
PERFORMANCE
Buffalo Weavers are available for public and private performance, facilitation and circle keeping. To contact us please reach out on our contact form.
PROTECTING ANCIENT FORESTS
we are working to support the Yaak Valley Forest Council in Montana to create the first climate refuge by protecting 100,000 acres of ancient forest in the Northern Kootenai National Forest. For more information check our journal and visit the Yaak Valley Forest Council Page. (External web page.)
BUFFALO WEAVERS
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STRONG BUFFALO
Strong Buffalo, (Tatanka Ohitika) is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota, and a decorated Vietnam veteran. He has been writing poetry before there was anything named as native poetry, starting in Vietnam. In 1990 he was awarded a Heinrich Boll fellowship; in 1997, a St. Paul Companies Leadership In Neighborhood Grant, and a Jerome travel grant that initiated Oyate Hotanin. Traveling the world and speaking has been a way of life, working for the International Treaty Council, Indigenous Uranium Forum, and One People Foundation. His words, translated in more than 17 languages, 3 published books, 6 CD’s, lectures and performances are spoken to contribute to a world where we use creativity and options other than war, racism, and classism to solve the problems we face.
For more information about Strong Buffalo visit: oyatehotanin.org
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BEN WEAVER
Ben Weaver is a songwriter and poet who travels by bicycle and packraft. He uses his music as a tool to strengthen relationships between human beings and ecosystems. Ben’s most recent project Music For Free saw him riding 3000 miles from Canada to Mexico along the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route with his guitar and banjo making stops on the route to offer free performances to the communities along the way, honoring unification through diversity. Ben has completed many wilderness music by bike tours, released nine studio albums and five books of poetry. Given the choice he will side with the animals, lakes, rivers and the trees.
For more information about Ben, check out benweaver.net