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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