Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

Buffalo Is the New BuffaloPowerful stories of "Mtis futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, and colonization. "Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to their survival and ability to support themselves, as once Plains nations supported themselves as buffalo peoples. The assumption is that many of the pre Contact ways of living are forever gone, so adaptation is

citizenship for all Native Americans

And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies

" It was not until college that Alison

“By way of an expansive poetic grace

Caleb Gayle"An important part of American history told with a clear-eyed and forceful brilliance

and the tales and legends that have circulated among the Tlingit people for centuries are all woven together

Diaz chooses love

a means of living in balance

Although some of our most beloved elders and teachers left us in recent years

Humanity has given up hope

and women who carry out traditional healing ceremonies

the kind that's hard to forget