2026-07-09T13:06:24-07:00 2025-12-31 851124615 Kentra Accounting Professionals PLLC 3888 Grooms Lane Billings MT 59101 990 2025-01-01 872993172 Blackfeet Eco Knowledge BLAC 4068452115 PO Box 377 Browning MT 59417 Tyson Running Wolf Executive Director 2026-07-09 true Travis Kennedy CPA CFE P03143323 4067486855 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Tyson Running Wolf PO Box 377 Browning MT 59417 938663 false X www.blackfeetecoknowledge.org X 2022 MT Blackfeet ECO Knowledge's mission is to revive and preserve Indigenous traditional knowledge systems that focus on the reciprocal relationship between bio-cultural diversity, where people and the environment work together for sustainability. The goal is to ensure cultural perpetuity by passing this knowledge to future generations for the protection of the environment. 5 5 2 0 653812 931726 21765 6937 0 0 675577 938663 56262 36824 0 87504 233398 0 0 474691 592105 618457 862327 57120 76336 314073 470386 541 870 313532 469516 Blackfeet ECO Knowledge's mission is to revive and preserve Indigenous traditional knowledge systems that focus on the reciprocal relationship between bio-cultural diversity, where people and the environment work together for sustainability. The goal is to ensure cultural perpetuity by passing this knowledge to future generations for the protection of the environment. false false 651692 20824 931726 Blackfeet ECO Knowledge Inc. furthered its exempt purposes by implementing Indigenous-led cultural restoration, education, stewardship, and community healing programs for the Niitsitapi/Blackfeet community. The organizations work focused on reviving, preserving, and promoting Indigenous traditional knowledge systems and reconnecting community members with land, language, ceremony, and iinii/buffalo. During the year, the organizations Way of Life programming supported sacred rematriation, intergenerational knowledge exchange, and culturally grounded healing. Activities included collaboration with museums and cultural partners regarding the return of sacred Blackfeet objects and bundles, and workshops in which Elders shared traditional ecological knowledge, oral histories, and spiritual principles with youth. The organization also advanced iinii/buffalo restoration through habitat stewardship, bio-cultural restoration, youth immersion activities, and educational preservation initiatives. The accomplishment report describes management and monitoring of approximately 36,000 acres of intact ancestral rangeland for free-roaming buffalo, youth field-based buffalo encounters, and development of an extended reality educational project to preserve and teach about the ancestral Blackfeet buffalo jump. Through the Circle Camp Initiative, Blackfeet ECO Knowledge Inc. provided land-based and culturally immersive programming, including outdoor language nests, seasonal decolonization camps, and traditional arts and skills instruction. Activities included plant identification, food systems preparation, and environmental preservation techniques designed to strengthen cultural continuity and practical land-based knowledge. The organization further conducted planning and capacity-building work to support tribal co-stewardship in the Badger-Two Medicine landscape by coordinating with tribal, federal, cross-border, and nonprofit conservation partners. It also advanced planning for a stackable credits framework intended to support buffalo rematriation and future land acquisition through carbon, biodiversity, and cultural value credit design. 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Tyson Running Wolf and Edward Kennedy - Family Relationship/Business Relationship 2.Tyson Running Wolf and Charlene Burns - Family Relationship. 3.Lona Running Wolf and Charlene Burns - Family Relationship. 4. Tyson Running Wolf and Lona Running Wolf - Family Relationship Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Executive Director received a copy of the completed 990 and emailed it to all the Board Directors for their review. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Monitoring and any enforcement is discussed during quarterly board meetings. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Available upon Request Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 Interfund Transfers to General Fund = $80000