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00:00Every year our elders tell us, go to the medicine world, remember that you have a relationship
00:14up there with stars.
00:17We're sky people.
00:24Our stories, our ceremonies, it's all related to the buffalo.
00:30Let's see if we can bring the buffalo back.
00:36How can we celebrate the buffalo?
00:39Someone said, Pete Botwell, and he's a puppet master.
00:42And I thought, wow, puppets.
00:46Here's some other kinds of puppets.
00:47Oh look, here's a pig.
00:48Do you need a pig in your show?
00:50Buffalo?
00:51How about a pig?
00:55We've been experimenting with lantern puppets in an outdoor environment at night.
01:00They glow.
01:01A show at night, the buffalo under the stars.
01:05This project isn't just an art project, it's a celebration.
01:10You might call it a ceremony.
01:13I can say I am buffalo.
01:15I am the environment.
01:17We really believe that's true.
01:20Even on these buffalo lanterns, you are the buffalo.
01:24You become the buffalo.
01:26They become a part of you.
01:28We found ourselves living treaty in this project, in the performance of the project.
01:38These are stories that are birthrights to our children to hear.
01:43They'll always know who they are from the stories.