Tasha Hubbard | CANADA | 98 min
Co-presented by ArtsEverywhere Festival
In partnership with The Arboretum, University of Guelph
EVENT: Keystone Connections & Kin
Feature Film Screening: After a dark recent history, the buffalo herds of North America are awaiting their return, aided by dedicated Indigenous activists, leaders, and communities. Together with Blackfoot Elder Leroy Little Bear, Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard weaves an intimate story of humanity’s connections to buffalo and eloquently reveals how their return to the Great Plains can indeed usher in a new era of sustainability and balance. In an epic reimaging of North America through the lens of buffalo consciousness, this richly visualised and deeply uplifting doc offers a potent dream of what is within our grasp. In a time of immense environmental degradation and global uncertainty, the buffalo can lead us to a better tomorrow.
Post Film: Conversation with doctoral candidate Paulette Fox (Blood Tribe, Blackfoot Confederacy) on Indigenous-led conservation.
DIRECTOR BIO:
Tasha Hubbard is a Cree filmmaker and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies and the Department of English and Film at the University of Alberta. Tasha is from Peepeekisis First Nation in Treaty Four Territory and has ties to Thunderchild First Nation in Treaty Six Territory. She is also the mother of a seventeen-year-old son. She researches and champions Indigenous efforts to restore the buffalo, has been a supporter of the Buffalo Treaty since 2015, and is a founding board member of the International Buffalo Relations Institute.
