Tales from the Badlands

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Willow Creek

Red Deer Valley / Alberta

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Dinosaur Provincial Park

Alberta

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Cottonwood

Dinosaur Provincial Park  / Alberta

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Cottonwood

Dinosaur Provincial Park / Alberta

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Cliff swallow colony

Horsethief Canyon / Alberta

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Polar Bears are hunters in disguise - men who shed their animal skin upon entering their homes. Another story tells of the polar bear Nanuk being lifted into the sky with hunters in hot pursuit, creating the constellation Udleqdjun

According to an old Inuit legend / Udleqdjun = Orion

Dinosaur Provincial Park / Alberta

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The silent giants of the badlands

Red Deer Valley / Alberta

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Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park

Alberta

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Coalfields of the Breaker Boys

Red Deer Valley / Alberta

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Last Chance Saloon

Wayne / Alberta

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“I saw a buffalo today, and it was a good day”

Blackfoot-Sioux elder / Old Man River / Alberta

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Dinosaur Provincial Park

Alberta

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Dinosaur Provincial Park

Alberta

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They continued on until they reached home. There the Good Mind placed the sun back into the sky, fastening it firmly so that it could not be brought down ever again. “My Mother”, the Good Mind said, “I have restored you to the sky. Now you will come each day and give our people light and life.”

According to a Blackfoot legend

Dinosaur Provincial Park / Alberta

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Writing-on-stone Provincial Park

Alberta

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Great Sand Hills

Saskatchewan

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First snow in the badlands

Willow Creek Valley / East Coulee / Alberta

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South Sandhill Coulee

Dinosaur Provincial Park / Alberta

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Dinosaur Provincial Park

Alberta

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Dancers dance to drum beat and sing in a circle while facing a center pole, often a tree such as the cottonwood

A monarch of the badlands

Dinosaur Provincial Park / Alberta

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Dinosaur Provincial Park

Alberta