Place to see: Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Fort Macleod, Canada

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

It was to this cliff edge that the Blackfoot people drove the bison, after days of patient tracking and persuasion, to their deaths. The jump is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

About this place:

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, located where Canada's Rocky Mountains meet the Alberta plains, is the oldest and largest buffalo jump site in the world, used by the Blackfoot First Nations people for thousands of years. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Fort Macleod, Alberta, CA
Telephone: 403-553-2731
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Discovered by Stephanie Fysh
on 12 January 2008.
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