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That mountain is shaking’: First-of-its-kind assessment considers Indigenous stories – MSN

by ahnationtalk on December 5, 2023203 Views

BANFF, Alta. — An Indigenous elder sits at a table telling a Blackfoot story about the Frank Slide in southern Alberta’s Crowsnest Pass.

“The Piikani people, they had been in that area for thousands of years,” Hayden Melting Tallow of Siksika Nation, part of the Blackfoot Confederacy, says in a video during a learning circle.

“The Europeans came and found some coal in that area and the Piikani people had been warning the people there, ‘Don’t build your house there, build it farther. That mountain is shaking.’

“They didn’t listen.”

In April 1903, a rock slide from Turtle Mountain buried the coal mining town of Frank, Alta., and left at least 90 dead.

Melting Tallow, who says the story is one example of why people should listen to Indigenous elders, was one of many contributors to the Canadian Mountain Assessment: Walking Together to Enhance Understanding of Mountains in Canada.

Read More: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/that-mountain-is-shaking-first-of-its-kind-assessment-considers-indigenous-stories/ar-AA1l1g8I

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