RN Documentary: Buffalo Nation
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: Buffalo Nation/Pow Wow Hour Special
Length: 29:30
Romantic images from the Old West feature majestic bison, or buffalo, grazing on prairie grass, or thundering across the Great Plains in the company of powerful Indians on horseback. In the battle for control of the Plains, the buffalo was in fact almost wiped out. But today, work is being done by Indian and non-Indian ranchers to restore the herds. Native American traditional culture is being revived, and the ties are being renewed between tribal people and the sacred animal which they view as a relative. The challenge is to find common ground for cultural and commercial interests. Meat from tribal herds could be sold to reservation schools and hospitals, as well as being kept for ceremonial use. Producer Martha Hawley spoke with Native ranchers, caretakers and educators from the Buffalo Nation.
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Piece Description
Romantic images from the Old West feature majestic bison, or buffalo, grazing on prairie grass, or thundering across the Great Plains in the company of powerful Indians on horseback. In the battle for control of the Plains, the buffalo was in fact almost wiped out. But today, work is being done by Indian and non-Indian ranchers to restore the herds. Native American traditional culture is being revived, and the ties are being renewed between tribal people and the sacred animal which they view as a relative. The challenge is to find common ground for cultural and commercial interests. Meat from tribal herds could be sold to reservation schools and hospitals, as well as being kept for ceremonial use. Producer Martha Hawley spoke with Native ranchers, caretakers and educators from the Buffalo Nation.
Transcript
Buffalo Nation
Duration: 29.30
Broadcast:
Producer: Martha Hawley
SFX buffalo / prairie dog
PHIL - reconnect with Buffalo Nation
MUSIC Badland medium honor song
STUDIO 1:
Radio Netherlands presents: ?gBuffalo Nation?h
The Program is presented by Martha Hawley.
ROSALIE: pact with buffalo
SFX borders bookstore
SFX train
STUDIO 2:
Rosalie Little Thunder is an enrolled member of Sicangu (seeCHANgoe) Lakota band. She lives in Rapid City South Dakota on the edge of the Great Plains, next to the Black Hills, the sacred center for Lakota people. The Lakota belong to the Great Sioux nation, the largest and most powerful tribe in the West, in 19th century North America.
As Europeans moved West, the Buffalo were almost wiped out on the Great Plains, and native Americans were driven out or onto reservations....
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Posted on August 15, 2006 at 10:20 AM | Permalink
Review of RN Documentary: Buffalo Nation
This is a half hour documentary about the effort to "re-introduce" buffalo back to South Dakota, particularly to the Native American reservations there. It's a good and well produced piece, with a lot of information and some memorable stories and anecdotes about the meaning of buffalo to the culture, and the health, of Native Americans in particular. I love the story near the beginning about the "pact" between the buffalo and the Sioux. I listened to the piece twice, and understood much more on the second listen. I think I missed some of the information on my first listen through, because of the way the piece was structured and cut. I found it hard to pay attention to the details, and on the second listen I realized that this piece needs more character development. I think I would have cared more, immediately, about the issues in this piece if I had been able to understand the issues more deeply, intimately through a couple of the people who give us the information. At points, the voices seem sort of "disembodied" and I wanted more context, more narrative, more of a "story" about these issues and less "pieces" of information about the topic. Again, a good piece, but I think it could be better, more engaging if developed through characters rather than structured around information.