Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

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Calque of Blackfoot Estipah-skikikini-kots. From being a location where Blackfoot hunters would send bison to fall off a cliff, dying in large numbers, and collect their dead prey.

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Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

  1. A cliff in the Rocky Mountains of the province of Alberta in Canada; that is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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