Sicangu Co is working in partnership with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe to provide a temporary solution if there is a halt to federal SNAP benefits.
Together, we’re ensuring that 5 buffalo from Wolakota will be harvested and processed to create hamburger, stew meat, and roasts. The meat will be distributed to all communities across the Rosebud Reservation to help ensure families receiving SNAP benefits who have an ID and SNAP cards continue to have access to nourishing, traditional food during uncertain times.
We’ll share more details soon about how this process will work including how families can access recipes and cooking tips directly from our Wolakota team to prepare meals with this traditional food source.
We’d like to thank Vice President Lisa White Pipe, Council Members Shere Wright-Plank and Wayne Frederick, Treasurer Wayne Boyd, RST President Kathleen Wooden Knife, AG Operations Manager Bud Colombe, and our CEO Clay Colombe for their continued efforts and dedication to caring for our people.
We extend our deep appreciation to our Tatanka relatives for continuing to provide for us, as they always have. Their generosity reminds us of our responsibility to care for one another.
From a Facebook page: “Good morning, I (KOYA DJ John “Millerman”) have been messaging owner RF Buche last week, as part of the conversation he has in his words provided the following information and ask me to publish to the public. The statement reads as follows:
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“One important note is that Buche Foods will be giving $100 worth of groceries to each SNAP household recipient if SNAP funds are not processed by November 10th.RF BUCHE concluded by writing, “but more details to follow”. A huge “Wopila” (Thank you) to RF Buche, we all hope that the situation does not escalate for the need to do this and that the US Government can work things out and reopen the US Government.
Another Facebook post from the RST Commodity FOOD Distribution page read: “The Commodity Program is open for business as usual for November 2025. SNAP, however, will cut benefits on November 1, 2025, then retroactively issue November SNAP benefits when the federal government is funded. Information regarding this issue is provided in the attached letter from the Deputy Under Secretary, FNS Consumer Services. Also, if SNAP benefits are not available by November 10, 2025, GF Buche Co. will donate $100 in food to each SNAP certified household. You may contact your local Buche stores for more information.
“I will post any updates that become available to me on this page. Alternatively, you may contact your local DSS for more information. Thank you and have a good day.
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe Vice President’s office is also working on an immediate, temporary fix to supplement our SNAP recipients, who have both an ID and SNAP cards. Wes Colombe of All Stop and RF Buche of Buche’s will work with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe to give discounts on staple food to go along with the buffalo. WoLakota has recipes for buffalo. Let us work together, so that our elders and youth don’t go hungry. This is in the planning stage and updates will be forthcoming.
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