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Female reporter: The city
of Denver has again given bison

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from its mountain park
to tribal nations.

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Denver used to auction off
the animals to keep

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the herd healthy, but in 2021,
it made the decision

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to give the buffalo
to indigenous lands.

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City of Denver Speaker:
Next, I'd like to introduce

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Jason Baldes
from the Eastern Shoshone

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and senior tribal buffalo
program manager

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and also a board member of
the InterTribal Buffalo Council.

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[Applause]
Jason Baldes: Good morning.

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[Speaks Shoshone]
I want to say good morning

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to each and every one of you.
Thank you all for coming.

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I want to thank
the city of Denver.

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I'm really pleased to be part
of tribal buffalo restoration

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and how important it is
for our people.

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Thank you very much.
Good morning.

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[Applause, drum beats thrice]

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Voice-over:
My name's Jason Baldes.

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I'm a member
of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe,

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and I'm a board member of
the InterTribal Buffalo Council.

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[Distant drum beating,
men chanting in native language]

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Jason: Every time you make
eye contact with a buffalo,

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it's telling you something.

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They know a lot more than we
give them credit for.

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[Drum-beating,
chanting continue]

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[People trilling]

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[Trailer clanging]

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[Overlapping chatter]

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Whoa. Ha ha!

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They're all fuzzy!
They are.

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I'm naming this one...
Boo Boo.

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Boo Boo?
Seriously? Boo Boo?

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So Arapaho signature
for those ones.
OK.

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[Overlapping chatter]

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What's that?

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Okey-doke.
OK. Yeah.

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All right. George?

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Great seeing you.
Come see us.

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Very good
to see you again.

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Thank you very much.
Good to see you again.

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Yeah.
Be safe, be safe.

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Jason:
Prior to colonization,

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buffalo was
our life's commissary

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for many of our tribes.

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It was our food,
our clothing,

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our shelter,
but also central

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to our cultural,
spiritual belief systems.

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So it's been missing
for a long period of time,

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and so, you know,
to restore that animal

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to our communities means
that we can begin to heal

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from atrocities
of the past, from,

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you know,
loss of land, loss of culture,

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loss of language.

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It's foundational
to who we are.

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Jason: We're here on the
Wind River Indian Reservation.

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The Shoshone Tribe's
buffalo are here.

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[Drum beating]

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[Chanting]

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[Others join in chanting]

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[Drum-beating and chanting fade]

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Jason: We started with 300 acres
for the Shoshone Tribe.

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We've been able to raise
the dollars to buy back land

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to make it 2,000 acres here
for the Shoshone Tribe.

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The Arapaho buffalo
are on a thousand acres

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south of the river.

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The goal is to continually
reacquire these lands

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that were illegitimately taken
in the first place,

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when our reservation
was opened up for homesteading.

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Takes millions of dollars
to buy back these lands now,

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but we can rematriate them,
get them back,

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restored to the tribes,
as opposed to seeing

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our lands continue
to diminish.

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We now have
over 150 buffalo collectively

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between the two tribes
and then established

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the Wind River Tribal
Buffalo Initiative to be

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a local face here
to raise money to buy land,

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and then also help facilitate

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the cultural, educational,

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nutritional reconnection

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of youth and community
to buffalo.

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It wasn't our goal to feed,

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but because of the tough winter,
and because we are on

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a limited landscape,
we have to do that.

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But the goal would be--
is, down the road,

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if we restore them to larger
landscapes, that they can exist

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on their own
without intervention of man

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or genetically
manipulating them

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or ranching them,
that this is an opportunity

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to see something different,
see them protected

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under tribal law,

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but also exist
as a wildlife species

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on the landscape,
where they can effectively

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create ecological change.

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We have tremendous
wildlife habitat potential

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on this reservation,
perhaps more than many,

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and so buffalo fits
right into that picture.

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It's the only one missing

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from the landscape
on this reservation

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that was here
before Lewis and Clark arrived.

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A lot of this work
that drives me

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goes back to being a kid

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and hunting with my dad,

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talking about why
we can't hunt buffalo.

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My dad was a biologist,
and I went on a trip

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with him to Africa,
into Kenya

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and Tanzania and Uganda
and witnessed

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the wildebeest migration.

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That was kind of
an epiphany for me.

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So when I returned home,
I had a newfound appreciation,

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I think, for my home
and my people,

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my community,
and realized

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I needed
a science background

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to gain
the academic credentials

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to focus on tribal
buffalo restoration.

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And so it's always been
a vision of mine,

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is to be able to hunt
buffalo with my dad,

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my sons, my grandkids

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in a way that was taken
from us.

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You know, that buffalo was gone
for a bit over a hundred years,

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but that's
a small window of time

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compared to the millennia
that we've had

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the relationship
with this animal.

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It's in our DNA.

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[Engine rumbling]

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Most of America has been
plowed up,

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paved over, fenced in,
fenced out,

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and so, you know,
what happened to the buffalo

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similarly happened
to Native American people.

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We're now on remnants
of our once former

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vast territories,
and that's a history

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that, you know, American people
need to understand.

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[Indistinct chatter]

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OK.
Ha ha!

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Jason: Our people,
we're still suffering.

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We have, you know,
high rates of diabetes

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and heart disease and other
health-related issues

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from the removal of buffalo
from our diet.

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Woman:
These are buffalo roasts

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that we smoked for probably
about six hours.

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Native people started
to starve to death

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because they wiped out
our buffalo, they, you know,

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pretty much wiped out one
of the most important staples

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in our diet, you know,
for Plains Indians,

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and so...

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they decided at that time,
you know, to bring in rations,

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and that was flour

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and lard and coffee, sugar.

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And so

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that's what the Indians
started to eat

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because that's all they had,
and so that's when,

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I believe, that was
the beginning of the end

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for our health
as Native people

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because they took that part
of our life away.

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They stripped it from us,
and that's why what Jason's

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doing is important,
because it's bringing back

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some of those ways that we can
learn to thrive on again.

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Jason: The InterTribal
Buffalo Council now has

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83 member tribes
across the country.

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That organization
is 30 years old

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and has restored
25,000 buffalo

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to 65 herds in 20 states.

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[People trilling]

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Jason: A lot
of ITBC's work has
been to lobby in DC

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for more federal support.

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We're also working closely
with the Department of Interior

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and USDA on things
like making it easier

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to get buffalo into
our federally funded programs

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and schools, to have
our own tribal meat inspectors

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that can do the federal
meat inspection

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so that we can get,
you know, certified meat

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back into our programs.

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[Birds chirping]

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Mention those herds
managed by DOI.

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Jason, voice-over: Restoring
that buffalo is foundational

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to who we are,

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and so many tribes
have that in common.

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I encouraged Menominee
to join up as a member tribe

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of the InterTribal
Buffalo Council,

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and they did.

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You know, these guys, they got
together, these young men,

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and found the resources
to put up the infrastructure

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that they needed, and we were
able to get some animals,

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10 buffalo,

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to come here
today.

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I was able to
fit it in

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my schedule
to be here

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for the release
and come up

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and see my new
Menominee relatives.

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[All singing
in native language]

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Man: We're here to witness
the rebirth of a relationship

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with a relative of ours,
the [speaks Menominee]

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in our language,
the buffalo in English,

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that we've had
for thousands of years,

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and we'll welcome them
back here to our land,

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you know,
welcome them home.

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[Singing continues]

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I don't know.
It's been a long time.

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I don't even know if there is
a memory of it anymore.

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It's been so far-removed
from our people,

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but today, November 12th,

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is the day we're going
to celebrate.

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[Singing continues]

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Man: Want to say that I'm
grateful for the brothers

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and the people that got
to come here and help

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and support and be able

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to help make this, um,

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make this here happen today,

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so I'm real grateful

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and honored
to be here, so--

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but I want you to know
I love each and every one

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of you guys
and thank you so much.

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We love you.

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[All whooping]

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♪

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[Whooping continues]

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♪

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Jason: I cried.

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It was as emotional
today for me

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as it was when we Shoshone
received our first animals.

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Like, when that first hoof hits
the ground and you can see

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that footprint, it's like
you finally realize

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that they're home and they
won't ever leave again.

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And so it's like that--
it was like that today.

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We--I shed a few tears.

16:43.033 --> 16:45.400 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
It was very emotional.

16:45.400 --> 16:47.733 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
I know exactly how
they feel,

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and to know
that their future

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is gonna...

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this changes their future
and the direction

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that they can go,
and they're just gonna--

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they're just gonna get better.

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♪

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[Closing theme music playing]

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♪