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  1. May 20, 2024 · Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Centre is a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site that preserves and interprets over 6,000 years of Plains Buffalo culture. Through vast landscapes, exhibits, and diverse programming, learn about the cultural significance of this cliff to the Plains People.

  2. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a buffalo jump located where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains begin to rise from the prairie 18 km (11 mi) west of Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada, on Highway 785. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home of a museum of Blackfoot culture.

  3. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is located in southern Alberta, Canada, where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains. It is the best preserved example of the communal hunting techniques and of the way of life of the Plains people based on the vast herds of bison that existed in North America for more than five millennia.

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  5. Jan 6, 2024 · Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump pays homage to the Indigenous peoples of the North American Plains. Full of significance, the site is also commemorated by the Government of Canada as a National and Provincial Historic Site.

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  6. Oct 12, 2019 · Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is an important historic site to the Blackfoot people, and is designated as a Provincial Historic Resource, National Historic Site, and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Southwestern Alberta.

  7. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump bears witness to a method of hunting practiced by native people of the North American plains for nearly 6,000 years.

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