Travels with the Bear: Where the buffalo roam (or fly).
Any guesses as to how they traditionally hunted buffalo hundreds of years ago?
I think the sign pretty much explains it. 
For more information, check out www.head-smashed-in.com.
It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site, no less.
(Regardless of what happened to the poor buffalo, it’s still a pretty cool name for a web page, you gotta admit).
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Never let it be said, that I don’t take the Bear to “interesting” places.
(Can you spot him?)
Tags: Alberta, buffalo, Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump, humor, teddy bear, travel, UNESCO Heritage Site
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August 9, 2008 at 11:21 am
Chuckle.. clubbed- to- death.com I guess is for baby seals.
I see bear, the cutie..
Your tour book reads like MAD magazine.
August 9, 2008 at 11:44 am
@Janice
…that’s because my LIFE is like MAD Magazine!
August 9, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Hehehe….it kind of looks that way.
August 9, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Friar,
Love the new tagline.
Where’s Bear? Am I Saturday-stupid? No, I can’t see him, and I even opened the picture large in another window to help my aching, aged eyes. *sigh*
The buffalo sign and site fall under the category of truth is stranger than fiction. You wouldn’t think they’d want to go the celebrating-violence route, no matter how honest it may be. Kind of a turn-off to people who can’t get a chuckle out of it, eh? I did get a chuckle, but a small, eeew kind of a chuckle…
Regards,
Kelly
August 9, 2008 at 8:01 pm
@Kelly
Hint: Bottom-right corner of the sign. On the 2nd white stripe…
We have that archetypal image of Indian Braves chasing buffalo on horseback. But I didnt’ realize until recently that they only did that from ~1700 to 1850.
Before that, there were no horses and they had to hunt the buffalo herds on foot. I guess running them off cliffs was one of the ways to do it.
Kinda takes away from the Hollywood image of Noble Savage, doesn’t it?
(Oh well…that’s what they did back then, you can’t undo the past!)
August 9, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Friar,
OMG. I stared until I turned blue before and didn’t see him. The little fella looks like a clump of grass. Even with the hint I had to stare and stare. Very funny.
Can’t undo the past, but you can come up with a better marketing angle, LOL. I’m all for historical accuracy, but… eew.
When you’ve got to eat, you’ve got to eat. No shame in that.
Until later,
Kelly
August 10, 2008 at 1:52 am
@Kelly
Yeah…The sign is is a bit over the top.
Apparently, it wasn’t sufficient to just have the words say “Head Smashed In”. They had to emphasize it with the graphics of falling buffalo.
NOT the best marketing in the world, I must admit!
August 10, 2008 at 8:35 am
I feel like a head-smashed in buffalo today.
August 10, 2008 at 10:29 am
@Brett
Ugh. So do I.
The way I feel right now, I almost WANT to jump off a cliff.
August 10, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Well at least the people who hunted the buffalo in these times did use everything of it – whereas in later times the whites shot them down in hundreds just to make the Indians starve (if you don’t mind adding me just these 2cents!)
Ulla
August 10, 2008 at 12:16 pm
@Ulla
Oh, I know. I agree, it was a pretty shitty thing what happened to the buffalo and plains Indians.
I don’t’ want to get into politics too much. Just that it is kind of a funny sign….not your typical tourist attraction.
August 11, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I couldn’t find bear until I read your hint to Kelly. Then I still had to enlarge the photo! Very nice camouflage bear has in this picture!
August 11, 2008 at 4:33 pm
@Melissa
I think the Bear wanted to hide…it was a pretty lame photo!
August 16, 2008 at 6:24 am
It is also a great SNFU song
August 16, 2008 at 1:09 pm
@mylesfromnowhere
I did not know that!