Laurie L. Buffalo is from Samson Cree Nation Treaty No. 6 1876 Territory and has been involved in policy and treaty protectorate and enforcement work for numerous years as a former elected leader, independent contractor, consultant and advisor, business owner and entrepreneur and is an avid volunteer and advocate with Maskwacis NGO International Organization of Indigenous Resource Development (IOIRD) as an Indigenous human rights and Numbered Treaty Rights technician.

She has also served as Intergovernmental Policy Analyst at the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations, as an Advisor at Assembly of First Nations, and is currently involved with various initiatives such as the UNESCO International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022 to 2032, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples implementation and is a Co-Researcher in three separate Indigenous Research Projects: Maskwacis Disability Futures (UOttawa/University of Alberta), First Nations Family Caregivers (University of Alberta) and International Indigenous Research Project titled “Unravelling Systemic Blockages to Indigenous Rights in State Institutions and Civil Society”(University of British Columbia).

Laurie’s special interests include dismantling systems and challenging mentalities based in colonization, dispossession, subjugation, marginalization, and disempowerment by rebuilding frameworks of policies, laws and processes that respect, implement, and uphold the teachings of the Nehiyaw (Plains Cree) Creation Story, Natural law and Traditional teachings.