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Singing Back the Buffalo
2024 Canadian film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Singing Back the Buffalo is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Tasha Hubbard and released in 2024.[1] The film profiles indigenous efforts to restore the buffalo to the North American plains ecosystem after the animals were driven to near extinction.[2]
The film follows the path of the buffalo during the spring, summer and fall of 2022, across the Northern Plains of Canada and the United States.[3]
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Production
In 2016, Hubbard was invited to film a historic transfer of buffalo, which were returned from Elk Island National Park to their original territory on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.[4] However, she put the project on pause following the controversial death of Colten Boushie, and turned her attention to making Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, her film about the Boushie incident which was released in 2019.[1]
Hubbard was then approached to make other films about similar incidents of anti-indigenous violence, but returned to Singing Back the Buffalo after being convinced by her family that she needed to take a break from telling difficult stories and make a film that brought her joy.[1] She resumed production on the film in 2022.[5]
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Release
The film premiered at the 2024 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival,[6] and had its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[2]
A shorter edit of the film was broadcast by CBC Television in March 2025 as an episode of The Nature of Things.
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