[2] He is of mixed Potawatomi and Black Canadian descent, and his mother is a member of the Caldwell First Nation in Southwestern Ontario.
[4] He followed up in 2022 with SAVJ, a prequel film about the childhood experience of being taken into foster care that first set him on the path to his troubled teenage years.
[6] MONSTR centred on his experience following his wife's death of a brain aneurysm, when he confronted his inner demons walking in the forest along the British Columbia Coast before taking a year-long apprenticeship with a wood carver.
[1] In addition to animation, Standing Buffalo has also worked in sculpture, illustration, tattoo art and tiki mug design.
[4] In May 2023, he was named one of the recipients of the inaugural Jeff Barnaby Grant for emerging Indigenous filmmakers from Netflix and the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.