You go take your gloves off.

Hey!

Oh, you little guy!

You, Whoa!

Second gear, second summer.

Come on.

They look like little calves.

Those other ones come running.

You guys going to d is keep him right in the curral Yeah, yeah.

Third round column Keep them in there for a while.

And then next week, we all our beef calves.

Put 'em right with ‘em eh?.

Yeah, they'll be right together.

Then we'll take away all the stereotypes of Buffalo and Cattle Council again.

That's pretty good, though.

Yeah.

And I just want to pet em, like their little fir... I do too!

[Laughs] Like, I wonder if I can put my hand likeright where he put his nose.

I know when I see no littl hooves, I was like, oh my God.

It's just like these little hooves that are going to work into the soil of Badger.

When I was growing up, we didn't have, Buffalo here on the Blackfeet Reservation.

We didn't really have that connection.

But there was somethin that happened, a long time ago that kind of changed me.

In our tribal ways.

Dreams are very important.

And I had a young hunter come to me.

He was very upset, and he kept looking back up the other way toward the mountains.

And the expression on his face told me there was something up there that I needed to go up there and do, and I didn't know.

I didn't have a clue what it was.

And that dream bothered me.

It really bothered me.

And so I wrote up one morning, to the last place I seen that hunte going over the hill, and I just start looking around and I start seein all these buffalo harvest sites.

So from that point on, it basically motivated me to start learning more about the Buffalo itself and about our ways.

Those chickens and the pig are in there together.

My personal relationship with Buffalo started when my dad used to take care of the tribal bison herd.

When I was, I was like thats so cool.

My grandma June, she was, kind of the matriarch for our family, for ranching.

And so she loved her cattle.

She'd have names for her cows, and, and I, I just I was like, you know what, grandma?

One of these days where you see your cows, I said, I'm gonna have I'm gonna have buffalo out there.

And she'd just smile and we'd laugh and I think she thought I was crazy.

You know, kind of..., but I was like, no, like I am I'm going to have a bison.

And so then I tell my dad that, and he just, he knows I'm bullheaded.

And once I have an idea in my head that that that's what I'm going to do.

And so, you know, when I, when I bring those animals back, it'll kind of be a sense of healing for me, for this land.

It's going to be like ripping the Band-Aid off and starting the process o healing, not only for my soul, for this place, but also for the land itself.

Yeah.

That's it.

Yeah.

They just random, like males and females.

They're all females.

Yeah.

So I wanted to start out with just, females first and that way because, you know, like for bison, females lead the herd.

And so just kind of get them going and then and then get a bull.

Here comes the owner, Nuh-uh I'm not gonna say owner, it's a caretaker because you don't own things.

You're just a caretaker.

I'm just restoring on back to their territory.

I tell them I remember when the tribe first was getting into this.

One of the things they didn't want to d is sell them to tribal members.

And that was always discouraging for me, because, you know, you need support, ownership from tribal members.

And this is the first sale I know of.

And so it's ironi because I was involved with that from the beginning, now this happens.

And I didn't have anything to do with it.

So now we'll start th personal herd here, and Latrice will find out the ups and downs and joys and the challenges of what she's got herself into.

Yeah.

And just sit back and laugh, so... [All laughing] So Hey You have to feed them every day.

They will be fine.

You know.

Then I have one, know, I hear you all the way up and, I mean, You know, you you, You, Work for other, Oh, yeah.

A new chapter began today, and that was with my daughter getting some animals.

That's the beginning of a chapter of individual tribal members taking the responsibility to care for this animal on the land that they have responsibility to, to care for, too.

And at some point in time, maybe, this becomes a land populated with wild buffalo again.

That'll be a another chapter.

Okay.

Little calves.

Okay.

Pull that gate.

Pull that gate.

Cacious Hey.

Cacious!

Ha, get out of there Yeah.

Yeah.

This would have been a whole lot easier in the first place.

Still in disbelief, really.

That I have three buffalo calves at my family ranch.

It's.

I guess, you know, when you talk about something for so long.

You wanted to make make it happen.

And, you know, the day is here.

I have them.

Go on guys, go on.

Noooo, other side.

Okay.

woah, woah woah.

All, look this way.

So, what are we doing?

What are you doing?

Furry, just like you.

Go down low.

Throw rocks at them.

Thats the only way youll kep ‘em movin my boy.