Learn about efforts to save wild buffalo; Lakota/Yaqui singer and activist is guest performer at The Whale Museum

The Whale Museum welcomes the Buffalo Field Campaign on Friday — today — 7 p.m., for an evening of music, storytelling and video presentation. Mike Mease, co-founder of the Buffalo Field Campaign, will be joined by powerful Native voices, including Lakota/Yaqui musician and activist Good Shield Aguilar, as well as Phoenix AfterBuffalo. Good Shield fronts the band 7th Generation Rise, which performs indigenous soul.

The Whale Museum welcomes the Buffalo Field Campaign on Friday — today — 7 p.m., for an evening of music, storytelling and video presentation.

Mike Mease, co-founder of the Buffalo Field Campaign, will be joined by powerful Native voices, including Lakota/Yaqui musician and activist Good Shield Aguilar, as well as Phoenix AfterBuffalo. Good Shield fronts the band 7th Generation Rise, which performs indigenous soul.

Mease will share stories and video footage from his frontlines work with America’s last wild buffalo and talk about ways you can join the efforts to help protect them, even from within your own community.

Mease has nearly two decades of experience in the company of wild buffalo, having lived in one of the coldest climates in the lower 48 states to work in their defense. For more information about the campaign, visit www.buffalofieldcampaign.org.

The presentation is free and open to the public, but donations for Buffalo Field Campaign are appreciated. For more information, call The Whale Museum, 378-4710, ext. 23.

The Whale Museum is located in Friday Harbor at 62 First St. North. Visit www.whalemuseum.org.