Rapid City, SD

Sacred Storm Buffalo is a flagship initiative of Wambli Ska Community Development Society. Sacred Storm Buffalo is a SD-AIB-certified buffalo processing facility, mobile field harvest unit, and workforce development engine. Sacred Storm works alongside Pretty Pink Buffalo, a youth-led wellness enterprise transforming buffalo byproducts into market-ready skincare goods to provide career pathways in butchery, culinary arts, land stewardship, and entrepreneurship.

"Not just jobs, but purpose-built livelihoods grounded in Lakota values."

Wildseeds Fund is supporting Sacred Storm Buffalo through a 2026 Capacity Grant to build a unified digital infrastructure for five separate but interconnected community development and youth leadership initiatives to strengthen how these five initiatives reach their communities, sustain Indigenous food economies, and share their stories on their own terms.