BRING THEM HOME Limited Theatrical Stop – Santa Fe

Please join us October 3rd, 7pm at CCA for a special opening night screening of Bring Them Home which will include a director Q&A following the film!

Bring Them Home/Aiskótáhkapiyaaya chronicles a decades-long initiative by members of the Blackfoot Confederacy to bring wild buffalo (Blackfeet: iinnii) back to the Blackfeet Reservation. A thriving wild buffalo population would not only reconnect Blackfeet with a central part of their heritage, spirituality, and identity but would also provide economic opportunities and healing for the community. Along the way, however, the initiative faces obstacles from ranchers who see the buffalo as a threat to the cattle ranches that dominate the land and are a legacy of colonization.

Bring Them Home examines the deeply meaningful role that buffalo played in Blackfeet life before
the arrival of settlers who eradicated wild buffalo to eradicate the Blackfeet people. For Blackfeet,
the buffalo are not only as fundamental to a healthy ecosystem but as spiritual relatives. Their
removal from the land meant the loss of the Blackfeet way of life, the trauma of which still
reverberates today.

Film Runtime: 78 Minutes