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Ipiihkoohkanipiaohtsi

Pronunciation: E-pee-ko-ka-nee piu-tsi-ya

As the bison were essential to the Indigenous people of the plains, the Blackfoot had established words and meanings for their migration patterns, which often coincided with the change of the seasons. The bison travelled a great distance of up to 300 kilometres north in order to safely take shelter in the artesian wells and wait to birth their calves in the warm spring weather before heading south with their offspring.

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