Buffalo Field Campaign
February 2017
Today [2/20/17], at dawn, at least fifty of our Buffalo brothers were shoved into trailers and hauled to slaughter. There are 1,500 Bison that are slated to be captured and slaughtered.
This morning a large banner depicting a buffalo and a tipi with the message “Protect the Sacred” was discovered by Buffalo Field Campaign patrols as they were documenting livestock trailers loaded with captured Yellowstone buffalo heading to the slaughter house. The banner was hung off of the Corwin Springs bridge that crosses the Yellowstone River, just a few miles north of Yellowstone National Park.
A short time later, Buffalo Field Campaign received the following statement:
A Call to Action: Save the Buffalo of Yellowstone Park:
As the last resisters in Standing Rock hold off the pipeline, so do the last
remaining 5,000 indigenous Buffalo here at Yellowstone Park. Every morning
up to 100 of the sacred Bison are exterminated during a government-sponsored
population control program. Today, at dawn, at least fifty of our Buffalo
brothers were shoved into trailers and hauled to slaughter. There are 1,500
Bison that are slated to be captured and slaughtered.
Yellowstone Herd Bison are descendants of twenty-three Great Plain's Bison
who survived the 19th century extermenation campaign, managing to eke out a
living in the corner of the National Park. Once, they numbered 60 million,
and ranged the entire continent, supporting millions of Indigenous lives.
Since 1901, they have managed to repopulate in this harsh reservation style
habitat. However, each year through government mandate, Buffalo are trapped
and slaughtered by contract killers–the pregnant mothers have their
offspring ripped from their wombs. These last remaining Bison live
precariously under govermental control and continue to be pushed into
oblivion.
Our communities are made up of many different nations, belief systems and
lifestyles. Each member plays a role and in a way that role resembles
nature. Honeybee's work together to maintain their colony; buffalo, when
going through hardship, will circle and protect the weak and when attacked,
trees will signal other trees to start their self defense response before
being invaded. On a micro level the change we create in every community is
momentous as it encourages and unifies on a macro level.
This is a call to our relatives from all four directions to step forward in
prayer and in action, to put an end to genocide and save the last wild
roaming Buffalo, without the Buffalo we cease to exist.
Wake up! The Buffalo need your help!
In Memory of Rosalie Little Thunder, All Buffalo Nations, The Ancestors, and
All Future Generations. For Mni Wiconi!
Earth's Indigenous Army
The Montana-based wild bison advocacy group, Buffalo Field Campaign,
applauds this courageous action which will help draw more attention to the
growing opposition to the maltreatment and slaughter of the country’s last
continuously wild buffalo herds.
“This is great timing, as this comes on BFC’s last day of our Week of
Action, so it tells us that others have heard the call, are paying close
attention, and are taking steps to make their opposition to the slaughter of
the sacred buffalo known,” said Buffalo Field Campaign media coordinator
Stephany Seay. “This banner is a testament to the resistance strengthening
and solidarity growing throughout Native communities and earth defense
allies.”
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