The Yuchi Tribe of Oklahoma received five bison earlier this month, marking the first time in nearly two centuries. Tribal members say the new herd will strengthen ceremonial practices — and connect them with other Indigenous nations.
"Part of the beauty of this entire project is that it's reconnecting among different Indigenous nations," Grounds says. For example, the Cheyenne and Arapaho nations already have herds, and they're"coaching us on handling buffalo, helping us with the pickup process."
, but were physically separated after being forced from their homelands in what is now the southeastern United States. Halay Turning Heart is a project administrator for the Yuchi Language Project and a lifelong participant in the Green Corn Ceremony, including the buffalo dance. The dance evokes"how buffalo sound when they're running, shaking the ground" through stomping, she says.was an abstract concept for her as a child — she only knew it from pictures. She never saw a bison in person until she reached adulthood and visited her husband's Lakota reservation in South Dakota.
The song for the Yuchi buffalo dance doesn't include the word for buffalo, and when the Yuchi Language Project started, Grounds says elders had trouble remembering it. They had never seen one, and neither had their parents or grandparents.
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