Historically the key to survival was the success of hunting wildlife and in contrast, the most important reliance to survival today is education. Peyachew utilizes the tools of education in letters and numbers by constructing an icon that symbolizes the legacy of survival from the past to the present. He chose to honour the buffalo as the universal symbol for all Indigenous people as a legacy for survival for all cultures. The North American Bison, who like the Indigenous cultures was on the brink of extinction and like the Indigenous people, has recently began to grow in numbers.
The concept to use language text from local Indigenous groups to fabricate the icon has reinstated that education is key to sustaining a healthy living environment. Engaging the public to search for Indigenous words can relate to problem solving, word search, research, perception, and creativity, tasks that are most often associated to developing the mind in an education environment.