Dallas Gudgell is a tribal member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Montana, USA. Dallas collaborates with NGOs, governments, agencies, global indigenous communities and Tribal sovereigns to create radical systemic-structural change to protect and improve human health, the environment, and racial and environmental justice for future generations.

He is vice-president of the Buffalo Field Campaign in Yellowstone, which is restoring buffalo as a keystone species, protecting the natural habitat of free-roaming buffalo and other native wildlife. His work centers around holistic land stewarding practices led by indigenous people. It is a form of healing for the generational trauma suffered by Indigenous people in the area, as well as a way to rebuild the biosphere and address climate change