Recently an aboriginal guide was showing a group of tourists around Alberta's renowned Head- Smashed-In Buffalo-Jump, a UNESCO World Heritage Site staffed by First Nations

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  • RICHARD B. LEE
  • RICHARD DALY
  • Jill Sullivan
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Recently an aboriginal guide was showing a group of tourists around Alberta's renowned HeadSmashed-In Buffalo-Jump, a UNESCO World Heritage Site staffed by First Nations personnel. The guide graphically described how in ancient times the Jill Sullivan buffalo would be driven over the edge of a fifteen meter precipice, to land in a gory heap at the base of the cliff. A diorama showed men and women clambering over the bodies to club and spear those still living. When one tourist expressed shock at the bloody nature of the enterprise, the guide responded simply but with conviction, "We were hunters!" connecting her own generation with those of the past. She then amended her statement with equal conviction, adding, "Humans were hunters!" thus expanding complicity in the act of carnage to the whole of humanity, not excluding her interlocutor.

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تاریخ انتشار 2002