Bisonhead

Yellowstone National Park was once the ancestral hunting grounds of the Ponderai people, who relied on wild bison for survival. Today, the Ponderai are restricted to a small pocket of land outside the park for hunting. This short film follows a family as they travel to this zone to participate in the culling of wild bison and preservation of their treaty hunting rights. The film offers an understated and powerful glimpse into the struggle to keep ancient traditions alive, the marginalization of indigenous people and the slippery definition of the word “freedom.”