Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
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How it came to be
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, about 18 km west of Fort Macleod in Alberta, Canada, is where peoples of the northern plains drove bison over a cliff for some 6,000 years.
Young buffalo runners dressed as coyotes and wolves steered the herds down drive lanes lined with hundreds of cairns and over a cliff about 300 metres long and 10 metres high. Bones lie 12 metres deep below it. The name comes from the story of a young Blackfoot man who wanted to watch the bison fall from below and was crushed.
The hunts ended in the 19th century after European contact. The site became a National Historic Site in 1968 and was inscribed in 1981. An interpretive centre built into the cliff opened in 1987, and Blackfoot-speaking guides share the site's story.
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