Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump: The story behind the site | APTN News

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Published 2022-07-08
For countless centuries, the Blackfoot people in southern Alberta have hunted buffalo using a buffalo jump.

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is one of hundreds of buffalo jumps that were across the great plains.

But this location is unique. Read more: www.aptnnews.ca/?p=204927
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All Comments (20)
  • Thank you for this....I have read about thus practice by native peoples but this is the the first video of a jump I have seen. The wide open plains are impressive to see. 👍
  • @hq9684
    Genuinely thought this place was just a Norm Macdonald joke, but no, apparently it's real. Surprisingly Cerebral.
  • I remember going there a lot as a kid. There’s something about being there and it’s almost magical or like you can feel the pure spirit of the people who used that place to hunt Buffalo
  • @geester2123
    Now there is skill. Running them off a hill.
  • @Smitty-tc4ni
    Lewis and Clark give an account of the Blackfoot pushing entire herds over this cliff! Most animals where never butchered as there where to many! They state that this would contribute to the demise of the Buffalo. Sorry if the truth is not as romantic as you are thought in school but there was massive waste but it was a way of feeding people.
  • @somebuddyX
    I'm really not sure what I was expecting from the name
  • @stewsock
    I'm surprised that Canada news has an open mic to give people a voice, show comments, this is Great YouTube 👍🏼 Atchaa ✊🏽✊🏽
  • @j.m.8193
    They cleaned 200 Buffalo before the meat rotted?
  • @mariteslauk9144
    I want to see the return of harvesting buffalo jumping off cliffs