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# How Reviving Buffalo Could Revive a Way of Life
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/women-earth/episode/how-reviving-buffalo-could-revive-a-way-of-life-ajo64n/
- Published: 2025-07-31T20:00:53.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-22T11:11:47.000Z
- Description: Lucille Contrera is leading a powerful effort to restore buffalo to their ancestral lands in Texas.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Women of the Earth, Season 2, Episode 1, #ZZZ_Episode_a3fd3e1b-8caf-41ab-9a6a-c7248c68a078, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_a265e5b6-6683-4387-b365-4e8cbe8d1adb, #v1.16

The near extinction of buffalo across North America had devastating consequences—especially for Indigenous communities, for whom buffalo were a source of food, shelter, spiritual connection, and governance. Today, Lucille Contreras, founder of the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project, is leading a powerful effort to restore buffalo to their ancestral lands in Texas.