SERVING POST AND PRE-COLONIAL INDIGENOUS FOODS
Each country has its cultural food origins. Native American food is ours.
About Us →
Buffalo Jump NYC is what happens when a Lakota from Rosebud Sioux Reservation visits NYC and meets up with Borikua Taino New Yorker. They decide to re-indigenize the NYC Food Scene. Everything is made fresh and ready to take on the go at your convenience. Come celebrate Native American Food Culture and full-bellies with us!
Our Founders →
Re-Claiming
and Re-Indigenizing
Foodways
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Chef / Co-Owner
Leo Cordier is a Sicangu Lakota dad, native cook, coding enthusiast, and co-owner of Buffalo Jump NYC.
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Business Manager / Co-Owner
Brooke Rodriguez is a Borikua Taino Mother living in Munsee Lunape Territory, the Founder of Grinding Stone Collective an Co-owner of Buffalo Jump NYC.
OUR VISION
Buffalo Jump wants to help normalize bison again.
Our long-term goal is not simply to sell more bison dishes. We want to help build enough consumer demand to support the expansion of a Native-centered bison economy—from ranchers and processors to distributors, chefs, restaurants, and ultimately the people eating it. We want bison to become an everyday protein choice rather than something Americans think of as unusual, specialty, or reserved for a particular occasion.
In that sense, we are also trying to disrupt the dominance of the cattle, pork, and poultry industries. We want consumers to reconsider why introduced livestock became the default proteins of the United States while Indigenous food systems were displaced and marginalized.
That same philosophy extends beyond meat. Native foodways are some of the oldest foodways on this continent, yet Native people remain largely absent from the modern restaurant industry and from the way American cuisine tells its own story. Buffalo Jump exists to change that.
OUR HISTORY
The Sicangu Lakota:
The Rosebud Indian Reservation (RIR) is an Indian reservation in South Dakota, United States. It is the home of the federally recognized Sicangu Oyate (the Upper Brulé Sioux Nation) – also known as Sicangu Lakota, and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (RST), a branch of the Lakota people. The Lakota name Sicangu Oyate translates into English as "Burnt Thigh Nation"; the French term "Brulé Sioux" is also used.
The Rosebud Indian Reservation was established in 1889 after the United States' partition of the Great Sioux Reservation. Created in 1868 by the Treaty of Fort Laramie, the Great Sioux Reservation originally covered all of West River, South Dakota (the area west of the Missouri River), as well as part of northern Nebraska and eastern Montana.
Since then, the reservation has been reduced considerably in size, as has happened with the other Sioux reservations. Today it includes only Todd County, South Dakota, and certain communities and lands in the four adjacent counties.