Blackfeet bison documentary ‘Bring Them Home’ screens in Kalispell Aug. 29
A still from "Bring Them Home" which will be screened at the Wachholz College Center on Aug. 29, 2024. (photo provided)
Bison are seen on the Blackfeet reservation in "Bring Them Home" a film documenting the reintroduction of bison on the landscape after they were nearly brought to extinction a century ago. (photo provided)
A still from the film "Bring Them Home" from Thunderheart Films, a documentary that captures the journey to reintroduce wild bison in the Blackfeet Nation. (photo provided)
When filmmaker Ivan McDonald was growing up in Browning, there weren’t many ways to see bison. When a bison was needed for a ceremony, it would typically come all the way from Yellowstone.
“We grew up understanding that the Creator created us and then created bison shortly after, so we'd have something to sustain us, feed us and provide shelter and tools and clothes and all of that,” McDonald said. “So, I grew up really culturally understanding bison, even if they weren't really like apparent on the reservation.”
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