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.