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Our Impact Campaign
Bring Them Home is a documentary that follows the decades-long effort of a small group of Blackfoot people working to restore wild buffalo to their homelands. The film explores cultural revival, ecological restoration, and community healing while addressing Indigenous leadership, biodiversity loss, and the deep connections between people, buffalo, and the land.
The Bring Them Home Impact Campaign builds on these themes by sparking conversations about Indigenous-led conservation, the return of buffalo to heal grasslands, and the relationship between culture and ecology. Our work centers on building support for the rewilding of bison on Blackfeet territory, educating communities about historical and cultural relationship with buffalo, and highlighting how buffalo contribute to the healing of grasslands, individuals, and communities. At the same time, we aim to increase awareness of this keystone species across local, national, and global audiences and to reposition buffalo in the public imagination as an essential part of North America’s ecological and cultural community.
By sharing this story, we seek to inspire meaningful change, advocate for sustainable practices, and empower communities to reconnect with heritage and land. Through screenings, panel discussions, partnerships, and educational resources, the campaign works to bridge understanding and mobilize support for Indigenous communities and ecosystems today.
Community Engagement
Community screenings are central to the campaign. They provide spaces for dialogue, reflection, and connection—bringing the film directly to the people and places most impacted. To date, Bring Them Home has screened across every reservation in Montana, in Glacier National Park, rural agricultural towns, in correctional facilities in Minnesota, and in communities nationwide. These gatherings have not only deepened awareness of the cultural and ecological role of buffalo, but also repositioned them in the minds of audiences as a vital part of North America’s living landscape.
Audience conversations continue to underscore the film’s ability to spark dialogue about sovereignty, resilience, and the relationship between people and the land. If you’d like to host a screening in your community, please visit Video Project and fill out a screening request form.
Iinnii Tour
The “Iinnii Tour†celebrates buffalo, culture, and community through events shaped by local hosts. Each stop includes screenings, meals, cultural activities, and discussions with filmmakers, ecological experts, and community members. Together, these gatherings honor the sacred relationship between Indigenous people and buffalo while creating space for healing, storytelling, and action.
Through open conversations, the tour highlights the role of buffalo—iinnii in Blackfoot language—in sovereignty, rematriation, and ecological restoration. It also continues the work of repositioning buffalo in the public imagination, helping communities see them as both a cultural relative and an ecological keystone whose presence strengthens land and people alike.
Education and Curriculum
The campaign also offers a free curriculum to accompany the film, developed by Anne Grant, M.S., an enrolled member of the Amskapi Pikuni and descendant of the A’aninin. The resource includes lesson plans for multiple age groups and settings. It aligns with Montana’s Indian Education for All constitutional mandate and the Seven Essential Understandings, but is adaptable for classrooms and educators everywhere.
The curriculum can be downloaded at no cost, and educational screening licenses are available through our distributor, Video Project. For students, this is a chance to engage with Native life as it continues today—centered in sovereignty, resilience, and community—not as a story of the past, but as part of the present and future.