- The residential school system was a network of church-run, government-funded schools for Indigenous children in Canada. These schools aimed to assimilate Indigenous children into mainstream Canadian culture.
- Stolen Children:Children were often forcibly removed from their families, forbidden to speak their languages, and subjected to emotional and physical abuse, with many dying from illness, abuse, or neglect and buried in unmarked graves.
- Stoney Nakoda Initiative:Members of the Stoney Nakoda First Nation created a memorial along the Trans-Canada Highway, in response to the discovery of 215 children’s remains in a mass grave at the Kamloops Residential School in 2021.
It’s still smoky and from what we see ahead it’s suppose to be the same down into the US.
The “Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump” story refers to a Blackfoot legend explaining the site’s name: a young man who died observing a hunt by being buried by falling bison. The site itself, however, is an ancient, well-preserved buffalo jump where Indigenous peoples drove bison over a cliff for thousands of years to provide food, shelter, and clothing, a highly coordinated and dangerous hunting strategy central to their survival and culture.
The Legend:
- According to the legend, a young Blackfoot man wanted to witness the buffalo stampede from a unique vantage point below the cliff.
- He waited at the cliff’s edge, but as the large herd of bison plunged over the precipice, they fell on top of him, tragically crushing him.
- His tribe discovered him dead, his head smashed, buried beneath a pile of bison carcasses, giving the site its poignant name.
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The Kainai (G-ai-nah) Nation, otherwise known as the Blood Tribe, is a First Nation based in southern Alberta. Kainai Nation holds two reserves, Blood 148 and Blood 148A. Blood 148, the nation’s primary reserve, is the largest First Nation reserve by area in Canada.
The Kainai people were called the Blood Indians or Blood Tribe by settlers due to their practice of using red ochre for face and body painting, a term that echoed the naming of their neighbors, the Blackfoot, who were named for their black moccasins. Another theory suggests the name came from a Cree name, mihkowiyiniw, which meant “stained with blood” and was given to them as a term of fear and respect for their perceived cruelty by enemies.
The “Fay Wray King Kong movie” refers to the classic 1933 film King Kong, in which Canadian-American actress Fay Wray played the role of Ann Darrow, the woman captured by the giant ape. Wray achieved worldwide fame for her performance and is often dubbed the first “scream queen. “
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