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ironymaiden) wrote2024-05-18 06:53 pm
ironymaiden) wrote2024-05-18 06:53 pm
Bring Them Home
Doc about the Blackfoot buffalo herds. Complicated by politics, special interests, and generations of cultural erasure, the goal of free-roaming buffalo on their land was finally realized just last year.
The crowd was amazing - lots of people involved in the film were there for Q&A, and there were tons of local Native folks.* So much joy in the crowd, spontaneous whooping and cheering. I ended up sitting by some of the buffalo stewards, and got info on a nonprofit that is all about indigenous-led environmental restoration.
*as someone noted at the Q&A there are 29 federally recognized tribes in Washington (plus the Duwamish but that's kind of a third rail).
The crowd was amazing - lots of people involved in the film were there for Q&A, and there were tons of local Native folks.* So much joy in the crowd, spontaneous whooping and cheering. I ended up sitting by some of the buffalo stewards, and got info on a nonprofit that is all about indigenous-led environmental restoration.
*as someone noted at the Q&A there are 29 federally recognized tribes in Washington (plus the Duwamish but that's kind of a third rail).