OUR RANCHER PARTNERS: Brendan Siers, Double S Ranch

Written By Jenice

Buffalo caretaker Brendan Siers, who became a Tanka Fund rancher partner in 2023, lives on Rosebud Reservation, SD. Brendan and his sister, Suzanne Mealer, are working to convert their family’s ranch from cattle to Buffalo. Members of the Sicangu Lakota Sioux Tribe, they currently have about 119 Buffalo.

Tanka Fund team members Arnell Abold, Zintkala Eiring and Dawn Sherman visited with Brendan this month and brought along videographers Kevin Campbell and Amber Wyatt to film some footage for an upcoming video about Tanka Fund’s 10 years of work In Buffalo restoration. Funded by ButcherBox, the video will be released in June.

See some of our behind-the-scenes footage below.

Jenice
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