Case file · Sacred site
Áísínai'pi (Writing-on-Stone)
Sandstone hoodoos along the Milk River in southern Alberta hold thousands of Blackfoot carvings and paintings; the site, sacred to the Niitsitapi, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.
2019 CE · 49.08, -111.62 · status: official
The account
Blackfoot tradition holds that spirits live in the hoodoos and that some images were made by them, not by people, and change over time. Vision quests were held there.