All My Relations: The Blackfoot Way of Seeing the World
Clip: 10/2/2025 | 1m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Dr. Leroy Little Bear explains the sacred kinship and shared spirit between humans and buffalo.
Dr. Leroy Little Bear reflects on the Blackfoot worldview, where everything—people, animals, and nature—is alive with energy and spirit. He explains that the buffalo are not mere resources for survival, but relatives in a vast network of relationships. This deep sense of kinship defines the phrase “all my relations,” connecting all living beings through shared spirit and respect.
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All My Relations: The Blackfoot Way of Seeing the World
Clip: 10/2/2025 | 1m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Dr. Leroy Little Bear reflects on the Blackfoot worldview, where everything—people, animals, and nature—is alive with energy and spirit. He explains that the buffalo are not mere resources for survival, but relatives in a vast network of relationships. This deep sense of kinship defines the phrase “all my relations,” connecting all living beings through shared spirit and respect.
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Aiskótáhkapiyaaya (Bring Them Home)
Bring Them Home reveals how the buffalo, once central to Blackfeet identity, spirituality, and survival, were nearly wiped out by settlers — an assault that devastated both the land and the people. For the Blackfeet, restoring the buffalo means reclaiming balance, kinship, and cultural healing.But i was not just about subsistence.
It was a much deeper relationship with the buffalo than that.
In the native world, everything is made up of energy waves.
And in fact, the energy waves are really what we would refer to as the spirit.
Everything is animate.
There' no such thing as being inanimate So that's what we talk about when we say all my relations.
Because I'm a made up of energy waves.
I've got spirit, see?
But so does everything else.
So they're all my relatives.
So when we're talking about Buffalo, we're talking about our relation, our relative.
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Preview: 11/24/2025 | 30s | Follow a group of Blackfoot working to right historic wrongs by returning wild bison to their lands. (30s)
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Clip: 10/2/2025 | 3m 10s | Riders of the Blackfeet Nation unite in a powerful fall buffalo drive honoring heritage and spirit. (3m 10s)
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Clip: 10/2/2025 | 1m 37s | A Blackfeet cowboy’s efforts to protect the herd clash with rising tensions in the community. (1m 37s)
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