The Buffalo Journal: Episode 2

As part of Indigenous Peoples Week, the Galt Museum & Archives is releasing digitized versions of a local television program called The Buffalo Journal.

The Buffalo Journal is a television program preserved at the Galt Museum & Archives. The program was produced in the early 1990s as a collaborative project between the Blood Tribe (Indian News Media) and Lethbridge Television. According to the creators, the program "looks at the culture, history and contemporary lifestyle of Canada's aboriginal people." Please note that the creators use language and terms that were common at the time of production and do not reflect current terminology.

The program includes the following subjects

  • the Bullhorn buffalo jump and an interview with nearby resident John Tallow

  • the Head-Smashed-In Interpretive Centre west of Fort Macleod, Alberta

  • a profile of Alvin Manitopiyes, a Cree Indian living and working in Calgary

  • a review of the film “War Party.”

A production by 2 & 7 Lethbridge Television and Indian News Media, 1989.
Courtesy the Galt Museum & Archives, 20011106012.

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