IINNIIWA: The Blackfeet Buffalo Story | Los Angeles
Join us for an exclusive screening of the short documentary, IINNIIWA: The Blackfeet Buffalo Story, which explores the remarkable return of Buffalo Relatives back to Blackfeet homelands and features special creative contributions from GRAMMY® Award Winning Yo-Yo Ma.
Live Performance, Screening, & Reception
FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2026 @ 5PM
📍 The Culver Theater
9500 Culver Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232
SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE
Elias Gallegos, Co-Director, IINNIIWA: the Blackfeet Buffalo Story
Ervin Carlson, Director, Blackfeet Buffalo Program; President, InterTribal Buffalo Council; Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor INDIGENOUS LED
Cristina Mormorunni, Co-Founder & Executive Director, INDIGENOUS LED
Arlan K Edwards, Blackfeet Singer/Songwriter
*More to be announced!
SYNOPSIS:
The Blackfoot people have always sung a Buffalo song. Nearly 150 years have passed since these sacred relatives, called “iinnii” in the Blackfoot language, were nearly taken from Turtle Island—but the Blackfoot people have never stopped calling their kin home.
The Blackfeet Buffalo Program has been at the forefront of returning buffalo to the Blackfeet territory for over two decades. In June 2023, the Program made history by returning 49 iinnii to their homelands at the base of Nínaiistáko, or Chief Mountain—a site sacred to all Blackfoot people. There, in the foothills that the Blackfeet call home, the first free-roaming Buffalo returned to the last intact grasslands in North America.
The homecoming was also a moment of fruition for the long-time partnerships between the Blackfoot Buffalo Program, Blackfeet Fish & Wildlife, Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks, and the Native-led nonprofit INDIGENOUS LED.
In 2025, Yo-Yo Ma traveled to Blackfeet Nation to add his art to the chorus that calls to our sacred Buffalo relatives. Yo-Yo performs “Amazing Grace” & “Going Home” a medley that provides hope and unity during divided times.