Maria Buffalo

Maria Buffalo is a Prairie Femme Nêhiyaw iskwêw from Samson Cree Nation in Maskwacis. Located within Treaty 6 Territory along the Battle River, where she calls home.

She’s a multidisciplinary artist: a bead worker, part-time filmmaker, stage actor, model, and writer.

Currently, Maria works as a library coordinator at her library branch in Maskwacis.

She is also recently finished her first draft of her debut stage script Kiyam-ing: A Band Office Drama with Workshop West’s Indigenous Playwriting Circle. And is working on her debut horror film “Mîhko: A Rez Gothic Vampire Story" through the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity 2025 Horror Writing Residency.