A documentary film screening in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, will bring a conversation about buffalo, Indigenous culture and local conservation plans into focus.

Singing Back the Buffalo is the featured film at an event hosted by the McKee Preservation Group.

Date: October 3, 2026

Time: 6 p.m.

Location: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Mahon Hall, 393 N Main St, Glen Ellyn

The group is raising funds for a planned Native American Cultural & Environmental Center at Churchill Woods Forest Preserve.

That local connection gives this buffalo documentary a purpose beyond an evening at the movies.

For neighbors who value the preserve, the screening offers a chance to consider how a cultural center might deepen connections to the land.

The McKee Preservation Group plans to follow the film with a discussion and light refreshments.

A $10 donation is suggested at the door, with proceeds supporting the group's fundraising effort.

The center remains a plan, not an existing facility, making the conversation about its future especially relevant.

The event places an Indigenous cultural and environmental project before the Glen Ellyn community in an accessible way.

It also invites a question worth asking locally: how can conservation spaces make room for cultural understanding?

Here, the film screening is also a starting point for that discussion.

Attendees can watch together, then stay to hear and share perspectives rather than heading straight home.

That format matters when a fundraising goal involves both the future of a place and the stories it may tell.

Churchill Woods Forest Preserve is the proposed setting for the center, connecting the group's plans to a familiar local landscape.

No one film can settle every question about culture, land or stewardship, and a single discussion need not try.

Still, an opportunity to listen and ask thoughtful questions can be a meaningful beginning.

For Glen Ellyn residents, this documentary film screening offers a way to learn more about the proposed center and the people working toward it.

The suggested donation offers another way to support that effort while taking part in the conversation.