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A new documentary narrated and executive-produced by Lily Gladstone, Oscar-nominated star of "Killers of the Flower Moon," tackles the Blackfeet Nation's fight to restore buffalo to their land.

The big picture: "Bring Them Home/Aiskótáhkapiyaaya," set to air on most PBS stations on Monday, comes amid similar battles between ranchers, conservationists and tribal elders over land use on Indigenous reservations. 

Gladstone made Golden Globes history last year by becoming the first person who identifies as Indigenous to win best performance by an actress in a dramatic film.

In an interview with Axios, she said she joined the project after ensuring it would center Indigenous voices. 

"Anything I can do to help support Native artists who are leading and doing the work...it's a no-brainer," said Gladstone, who is of Piegan Blackfeet and Nez Perce heritage.

Zoom in: The film follows the Blackfeet Nation's decades-long effort to restore wild buffalo (iinnii) to ancestral lands in a story about reclaiming identity, spirituality and sovereignty through conservation.

Directed by Blackfeet siblings Ivan and Ivy MacDonald with filmmaker Daniel Glick, it explores the conflicts on tribal land in the U.S. and Canada over when and where the buffalo should roam.

Once exterminated by white settlers as a method to remove Indigenous people, the buffalo returned to Blackfeet land, now divided by ranches and few options to run wild as generations before.

Gladstone described the project as deeply personal. "I don't really remember a time when I didn't have a deep awareness that buffalo are at the heart of who we are as Blackfeet."

Lily Gladstone with long dark hair wearing patterned purple top, black jacket, white beaded choker, and feather earrings, standing outdoors with another person partially visible behind her.

Lily Gladstone is seen outside "FOX Studio" on November 14, 2025, in New York City. Photo: Raymond Hall/GC Images via Getty Images

In the film, two reserves in Canada and the Blackfeet Nation are shown throughout the years struggling with ways to bring back wild buffalo to the lands.

Tribal officials have to battle internal politics, resistance from cattle ranchers and efforts to get youth involved in "buffalo awareness."

Tribes often have to sell herds, only to purchase other herds later when sentiments change. 

Zoom out: The film links conservation to cultural survival. 

"At a time when everything feels like a commodity," Gladstone said, "this story reminds us that connection to land and animals isn't something you can buy — it's something you live."

The intrigue: Gladstone traced her bond with buffalo to her family lineage, which includes Red Crow, a Kainai chief who witnessed the shift from buffalo to cattle economies in the 19th century.

"He said we were buffalo people becoming cattle people, and that's still true in many ways."

She provides narration through the film but also played a role in its direction.

Go deeper: Lily Gladstone dedicates Golden Globe to "rez kids"

Lily Gladstone dedicates Golden Globe to "rez kids"

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"Buffalo are at the heart of who we are as Blackfeet," Gladstone told Axios.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning from Congress after her acrimonious split with President Trump, the Georgia Republican announced in a post on Friday evening. 

Why it matters: Greene was one of Trump's earliest allies and among his most loyal supporters in Congress. But she broke with Republicans over health care costs and foreign policy, and her relationship with Trump dissolved over her push to release the "Epstein files." 

"If I am cast aside by the president and the MAGA political machine and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders and the elite donor class that can never, ever relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well," Greene said in a video posted on X. 

Greene was first elected to Congress in 2020, representing Georgia's 14th district. Her last day in office will be Jan. 5, 2026.

The big picture: Greene has taken positions in recent weeks that have puzzled Republicans and irritated Trump.

She's said her party has "no plan" when it comes to health care.

She was one of four Republicans to sign a discharge petition to release the Epstein files, against Trump's wishes.

In an interview with Axios in October, she slammed Trump's second-term agenda as "America Last."

The latest: Trump responded in a Truth Social post on Saturday calling Greene a "Traitor," and accusing her of calling it "quits" because she didn't want to face a primary challenger without an endorsement from the president. 

"For some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went BAD," Trump said in the post.

"Nevertheless, I will always appreciate  Marjorie, and thank her for her service to our Country!"

Trump told NBC News on Saturday it won't be easy for Greene to revive her political career but he would "love to see that." He said, as of now, "she's got to take a little rest."

Greene did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment on the president's post. 

Between the lines: Trump claimed that tensions began after he showed Greene polling suggesting she could not win a statewide race, even with his endorsement, which he said he was not going to give.

Trump's political operation in recent days had been fielding interest from potential MTG challengers.

One name mentioned in pro-Trump circles is Clayton Fuller, a northwest Georgia district attorney who ran unsuccessfully against Greene in 2020.

What she said: "I have fought harder than almost any other elected Republican to elect Donald Trump and Republicans to power, traveling the country for years, spending millions of my own money, missing precious time with my family that I can never get back," Greene wrote in her resignation letter. 

"Meanwhile most of the Establishment Republicans, who secretly hate him and who stabbed him in the back and never defended him against anything, have all been welcomed in after the election," she added.

What they're saying: One House Republican told Axios that Greene gave little indication of her plans ahead of the time, calling her announcement "shocking."

"But she's not wrong," this lawmaker, a right-wing populist like Greene, added. "I agree with her sentiments. I … have thought of doing the same."

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) posted on X: "I'm very sad for our country but so happy for my friend Marjorie. I'll miss her tremendously. She embodies what a true Representative should be."

The other side: Some Democrats expressed kinship with Greene, with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) telling Axios, "Mike Johnson has made the Republican majority completely irrelevant and the job of being a Republican representative totally unfulfilling. I think MTG feels the unbearable emptiness of being a Republican today."

"I wouldn't be surprised if MTG runs for president as a right-wing independent in 2028," he added.

Others gloated, with Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) telling Axios: "Well, I guess we're getting that national divorce she advocated for, except it's just us from her."

"MAGA is finally unraveling, fittingly in a spectacular food fight," said Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.).

What's next: Greene's resignation will shrink House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) majority, with Republicans now controlling just 218 seats. Democrats currently hold 213 seats. 

Under Georgia law, Governor Brian Kemp (R) must hold a special election within 40 days of the seat becoming vacant. 

The bottom line: Trump has been privately expressing frustration with Greene for months, and has been asking allies what happened to the congresswoman.

Editor's note: This story has been updated with statements from Trump and additional details throughout.

Axios' Alex Isenstadt and Lauren Floyd contributed reporting

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UN climate talks in Brazil are wrapping up Saturday with a push to help move nations away from fossil fuels, but the deal lacks explicit mention of the CO2-spewing energy sources.

Why it matters: The compromise underscores the Paris Agreement's limited ability to move from aspiration to stronger real-world action.

It's a disappointment for nations and advocates that want an explicit "roadmap" away from fossil fuels — coal, oil and gas.

But it prevented collapse of the talks that had already extended beyond Friday's scheduled close.

Driving the news: One main agreement in Belém launches a "Global Implementation Accelerator" to speed up efforts to limit temperature rise.

It also has a "Belém Mission to 1.5" aimed at "enabling ambition and implementation" of nations' emissions-cutting pledges.

Elsewhere, the agreement calls for efforts to at least triple finance for climate adaptation by 2035.

Between the lines: The carefully word-smithed document indirectly endorses movement away from fossil fuels.

The section on the "Global Implementation Accelerator" shouts out the "United Arab Emirates Consensus."

That's the outcome of the 2023 UN talks in Dubai that called for "transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems."

Including an explicit push away from fossil fuels in this year's agreement hit "stiff resistance from the Arab Group of nations including top oil exporter Saudi Arabia," Reuters reports from Brazil.

The big picture: The talks unfolded as low-carbon power and vehicle deployment is growing worldwide, but global CO2 emissions are still rising as energy consumption grows.

Multiple studies say warming is slated to blow harmfully far past Paris Agreement goals without much stronger action.

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