The American buffalo

The American buffalo

a production of Florentine Films and WETA Washington DC ; directed by Ken Burns ; written by Dayton Duncan ; produced by Julie Dunfey and Ken Burns
Video DVD - 2023

" ... America's national mammal, which sustained the lives of Native people for untold generations, being driven to the brink of extinction, before an unlikely collection of people rescues it from disappearing forever."--Container.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Duncan, Dayton (Screenwriter), Coyote, Peter (Narrator), Brannum, Julianna
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Spanish
Published: [Arlington, Virginia] : PBS, [2023]
Edition:Widescreen.
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500 |a "The American Buffalo, a new two-part, four-hour series, takes viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent's most iconic landscapes, tracing the animal's evolution, its significance to the Indigenous people and landscape of the Great Plains, its near extinction, and the efforts to bring the magnificent mammals back from the brink. For thousands of generations, buffalo (species bison bison) have evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for killing them, revered the animal. The stories of Native people anchor the series, including the Kiowa, Comanche, and Cheyenne of the Southern Plains; the Lakota, Salish, Kootenai, Mandan-Hidatsa, and Blackfeet from the Northern Plains; and others."--PBS website. 
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500 |a Originally broadcast on PBS in 2023. 
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520 |a " ... America's national mammal, which sustained the lives of Native people for untold generations, being driven to the brink of extinction, before an unlikely collection of people rescues it from disappearing forever."--Container. 
520 |a "For thousands of generations, buffalo (species bison bison) have evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for killing them, revered the animal. The stories of Native people anchor the series, including the Kiowa, Comanche, and Cheyenne of the Southern Plains; the Lakota, Salish, Kootenai, Mandan-Hidatsa, and Blackfeet from the Northern Plains; and others. Numbering an estimated 30 million in the early 1800s, the herds began declining for a variety of reasons, including the lucrative buffalo robe trade, the steady westward settlement of an expanding United States, diseases introduced by domestic cattle, and drought. But the arrival of the railroads in the early 1870s, and a new demand for buffalo hides to be used in the belts driving industrial machines back East, brought thousands of hide hunters to the Great Plains. In just over a decade the number of bison collapsed from 12-15 million to fewer than a thousand, representing one of the most dramatic examples of our ability to destroy the natural world. By 1900, the American buffalo teetered on the brink of disappearing forever, and Native people of the Plains entered one of the most traumatic moments of their existence. But the other, lesser-known part of this story, told in the film's second episode, follows the efforts of the diverse and unlikely combination of characters who set out to save the species from extermination and eventually turned it into a national effort. They ranged from famous people like Theodore Roosevelt and the legendary Texas cattleman Charles Goodnight, to Latatí and Michel Pablo on the Flathead reservation in Montana, among many others whose actions provide compelling proof that we are equally capable of pulling back from the brink of environmental catastrophe if we set our minds to it. Both episodes are filled with fascinating stories and unforgettable people, including Old Lady Horse, a Kiowa woman who describes her tribe's spiritual and practical relationship with the bison, and Charles Jesse "Buffalo" Jones, a mercenary hunter who took part in the final slaughter of millions of buffalo, but then turned to rescuing motherless calves and starting a small herd that would eventually provide seed stock for others. The eloquent words of Pretty-Shield, a Crow medicine woman, describe the utter devastation felt by all the tribes at the destruction of the great herds, while crusading conservationist George Bird Grinnell's editorials explore how central Yellowstone National Park's small herd became to the survival of the species."--  |c PBS website https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-american-buffalo/about-the-film (viewed November 9, 2023). 
500 |a Special feature: "Homecoming" by Julianna Brannum. 
500 |a Homecoming: "Homecoming chronicles the efforts of those working to rebuild Native American communities' enduring relationship to the buffalo. At the turn of the last century, Yellowstone National Park helped to save the nation's buffalo population from extinction. Now, in the 21st century, their Bison Conservation and Transfer Program is supporting buffalo restoration to the Plains and to the Indigenous people whose lives, spiritually and physically, were inextricably linked to the bison for thousands of years. Each winter, approximately 200 bison are transferred to tribal nations around the country. The film follows Jason Baldes, an Eastern Shoshone and a member of the InterTribal Buffalo Council, as he leads historic transfers of bison from Denver, Colorado to his Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, and from a Nature Conservancy Preserve in Illinois to the Menominee in Wisconsin, communities which will maintain their bison herds to supply a healthy food source and cultural touchstone to their tribal citizens for eternity. The film explores what living among the bison once again means for Native people--today and for future generations. Directed and produced by Julianna Brannum, a member of the Comanche nation, Homecoming highlights the foundational work of the InterTribal Buffalo Council and partner organizations and how this movement is a guiding force in the food sovereignty and cultural revitalization movements led by tribal citizens across the United States."--PBS website. 
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