Sandra Achterling, Stanchfield, Minnesota
Sponsor: Carson Drug & Custer Community Hospital
Vision: Morning Star Buffalo
Morning Star Quilt symbolizing the first nations history with bison and the Black Hills .

This buffalo now grazes in Custer , SD.

Mike Bray, Monticello, Minnesota
Sponsor:Ron & Diane Trithart, Marcia & Duane Murphey, Custer Gold,
Colleen Hennessey & James Frank
Vision: Elders of the Black Hills
Depicts the buffalo as a tribute to the past and present. The eagle, buffalo and Indian are all symbols of strength, pride and honor. They remind us to survive and flourish once more.

This buffalo grazes in Rapid City , SD

Ginny Butcher, Evansville, Wyoming
Sponsor: Telco, Larry & Jean Mattheson
Vision: Prairie Thunder
A buffalo stampede coming at the viewer from the area of the hump on down toward the rib area with dust and buffalo emerging from the dust, with a suggestion of local landscape in the background. The head and tail and legs are painted realistic by fading into the stampede.

This buffalo grazes in Michigan

Dennis Cumin, Billings, Montana
Sponsor: May B TV
Vision: Blackbirds Watching
Reflect the buffalo’s home, history, and history with man and what of its future. The sides are a canvas of plain scenes. The hump is the blue sky. Indian corn goes up the side of the head with corn tassels by the ears. Domesticated corn is grown up from the front legs. Cat tails and buffalo grass is on the rear legs.

This buffalo grazes in Custer , SD

Sharon Fridley, Edgemont, South Dakota
Sponsor:
Vision: Mosaic Buffalo
Hand made tiles to make mosaic scenery of the history of the Black Hills. As the mosaic flows across the buffalo there will be scenes of animals, then teepees, the gold rush, pioneers, and last the modern civilization. Buffalo will be incorporated into each scene.

This buffalo grazes in Custer, SD

Bonnie Hartpence, Custer, South Dakota Sponsor: First Western Bank, Bear Rock Art, Battlecreek Real Estate Agency Vision: Mitakuya Oyasin (All My Relations)
The use of symbols of the indigenous culture to show how all the mineral, plant, animal, mankind, and spiritual are related. Colors of the directions of the Medicine Wheel are used to represent that direction, but also wisdom and the buffalo. Each place on the wheel is endowed with many layers of understanding and all are necessary for the healthy whole of both individuals and society. The buffalo is encased in many mini quilts each fitting together like puzzle pieces. In addition the teaching stories of the Sundance are included.

This buffalo lives in Custer, SD

Edie Reno, Gillette, Wyoming
Sponsor: Bradeen Real Estate and Auctions
Vision: We Are All One Blood
Contemporary indigenous buffalo, infused with Great Plains, Black Hills flora and fauna, symbolism and icons of persona and art history imagery.

This buffalo moved to Plymouth, MN

Paula Tonemah, Hot Springs, South Dakota
Sponsor: First Western Community Foundation
Vision: The Spirit Within Us
Honoring all those who came before us. The buffalo has a mural of pioneers, Native Americans and mountain men, symbols of ancestors of many cultures and peoples.

This buffalo moved to Huron, SD

Jennifer Larsen, Billings, Montana
Sponsor:
Vision: A Tribute to Forest Firefighters
Honor firefighters as well as perseverance of the buffalo. Paint a massive blazing fire that the bison is charging through.

This buffalo can be seen at the Custer Comfort Inn and Suites, Custer, SD

Kathy Morrow, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Sponsor: SD Community Foundation
Vision: United We Stand
Starting from the buffalo’s neck, shoulder, and side, four buffalo of Red, Yellow, White and Black overlap. These buffalo represent the people of the four nations. Ribbons of color trail from each of the buffalo and continue to the other side of the sculpted buffalo. The ribbons become part of the decorations in a full-length buffalo bonnet with buffalo horns. Chief David Bald Eagle of the Lakota Tribe is the model wearing the full length bonnet. Gerard Nervig –Custer, South Dakota Sculptor of the 2005 Custer Stampede Jumping Buffalo

This buffalo does its jumping in Albuquerque, NM

Nikki Sigle, Spearfish, South Dakota
Sponsor: Elmen Family Foundation
Vision: Joe
A buffalo of bright colors and designs similar to bead work on a moccasin or quill work with triangles and geometric patterns.

This buffalo stayed at Surroundings in Custer, SD

Richard Tucker, Scottsbluff, Nebraska
Sponsor: Custer Chamber of Commerce &Custer Area Arts Council
Vision: Spirit buffalo
A thunderbolt of bronze on one side surrounded by a blue arrow. The other side has a medicine shield and a medicine pipe. The shield has the four directions painted on it. The pipe has a bronze bowl and the stem and feathers will be sculpted. The horns are covered with thin bronze. Texture was added to the cape and head and then painted dark brown and black. The rear is painted tan.

This buffalo is in Spearfish, SD

Dwayne Wilcox, Rapid City, South Dakota
Sponsors: Black Hills Power
Vision: American Bull
There is a theme that has run throughout the artist's artwork from his earliest pictures. It is a reoccurring red, white and blue color scheme. People may see it as a patriotic theme; however, it is his way of expressing the duty a moral obligation to honor those promises made to this land’s Natives People. With this in mind, he painted the long, shaggy hair blue with white stars and the short hind section hair, red and white stripes.

This buffalo is in Custer, SD