Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

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“Instead of accepting that the buffalo, and our ancestral ways, will never come back, what if we simply ensure that they do?”

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“Education is the new buffalo” is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to their survival and ability to support themselves, as once Plains nations supported themselves as buffalo peoples. The assumption is that many of the pre-Contact ways of living are forever gone, so adaptation is necessary. But Chelsea Vowel asks, “Instead of accepting that the buffalo, and our ancestral ways, will never come back, what if we simply ensure that they do?”

Written by Chelsea Vowel

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