Singing Back the Buffalo | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Indigenous visionaries, scientists and communities are rematriating the buffalo to the heart of the North American plain | dG1fSW5RZEhxQ1N4Vmc

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00:00In the days that still live in our stories, millions of buffalo moved across North America.

00:12By 1890, the buffalo numbered less than 300.

00:17We still have the songs, we have the ceremonies, but there's no buffalo to be seen.

00:23We need to bring that buffalo back.

00:28The buffalo is our relative, the one we learn from, the one that cares for us.

00:33The buffalo were our original teachers and what happened in colonization is someone took

00:38this big cup and like spread those teachings out and we have to go around and pick them

00:42up.

00:43It's an uphill job.

00:44We will need partners.

00:46The nations, we all need to help each other.

00:48Our goal is to put them on federal lands, national parks, reserves.

00:52The vision was always that we would release them to be free roaming.

00:57They should never be fenced because of the people coming out here and experience the

01:01animals themselves.

01:04That's pretty potent stuff.

01:07It's just indescribable kind of things that happen with these buffalo.

01:12It's metaphysical.

01:13It's beyond our understanding.

01:16Buffalo restoration can be reconciliation.

01:19When we reintroduce buffalo back into the environment, what happens is the revitalization

01:26of that ecosystem.

01:28Buffalo become climate change fighters.

01:30It's such a big effort amongst a lot of different people working together to ensure that this

01:40will be their place for eternity.

01:48The buffalo never left.

01:50It's us humans that have to come back to the relationship with the buffalo.