Wolak̇ota Buffalo Range

Bringing the buffalo home, restoring the Buffalo Nation 

The 28,000 acre Wolak̇ota Buffalo Range, home to over a thousand buffalo, is the largest Native-owned and managed bison herd in the world. Wolak̇ota supports the regeneration of the land, people, and economy of the Siċaŋġu Lak̇ota Oyate. 

Wolak̇ota centers a Lak̇ota worldview while addressing two of humanity’s great existential crises: climate change and social inequity.

As the largest native species in the grassland prairie, the bison plays a healing and restorative role in a healthy ecosystem. And as an animal recognized by the Sicangu Lakota as a relative, the buffalo plays a healing and restorative role in the Native cultural economy. When the buffalo is healthy, the Sicangu Oyate is healthy.