Imagining Head Smashed In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains

• Main Author: Jack W. Brink (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Athabasca University Press 2008
• Subjects: northern plains; buffalo; UNESCO heritage site; aboriginal hunting
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, worki...