Indigenous groups gather for Buffalo Treaty renewal [Video]

STAND OFF, ALTA. –

It’s been a decade since the signing of the Buffalo Treaty helped promote buffalo conservation among Indigenous communities in southern Alberta.

Now on the 10th anniversary of the original agreement, new signatories gathered in Stand Off, Alta. to renew it.

Representatives from over 40 different Indigenous nations and tribes are on the Blood Tribe reserve renewing their commitment to the Buffalo Treaty.

Covering more than six million acres in Canada and the U.S., the treaty preserves the bison ways through conservation, culture and education.

“Blood Tribe was one of the original signatories of the Buffalo Treaty. And so to have it, come here, the gathering of everyone with this shared vision, I think it cements, it is again, that gathering of renewal,” said Blood Tribe councillor Diandra Bruised Head.

The original treaty was signed on the Blackfeet Reserve in Montana on Sept. 25, 2014.

Since then, bison have been reintroduced …