2026 Tribal Education Webinar Series - Session 3

Patti Harris-Baldes (Buffalo Medicine Woman), a Northern Arapaho and Big Pine Paiute Matriarch in training, is the Executive Director of Wind River Native Advocacy Center, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Native Memory Project, Wind River Community Alliance, Yellowstone Peoples and WyoFile. She focuses her time and energy building relationships, especially through art and conservation, across great divides. Inspired by the reintroduced buffalo herd of the Wind River Reservation, Patti invites people from all walks of life to visit and learn through meeting the buffalo, finding the love that lets us teach ourselves, and finding the power that we have in each other.

In this webinar, Pattie will share her Buffalo story through her 20-year photography journey dubbed, Patti with an Eye. Her story conveys the deep relationship that was also absent until Buffalo physically returned to her life. Her photography gifted her much opportunity in the conservation world. Sharing her ReMatriate message through dance, song and speaking engagements, she advocates for Matriarchy, Land & Water Back, Food Sovereignty and Relationship. Patti's perspective of connection to the Buffalo is fed not only through her lens but meeting all her senses through field harvests, learning and sharing.