Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

English Etymology en bla Áísttsiipakihkínikottsi painfully stuffed [by] striking [onto the] head. 2 Etymology notes The source word in Blackfoot either refers to the millenia-old practice of buffalo hunting — made possible by sending the animal in large herds down a cliff — or to the oral tale of how the buffalo jump got its name. According to the University of Calgaryen Legend of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Bison in Mythology and Religious Ritual University of Calgary 1997 https://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/calgary/Legend.html https://web.archive.org/web/20130901172459/http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/calgary/Legend.html 1 September 2013, 150 years ago, a young Blackfoot man wanted to see the fall of the buffalo from below, but the hunt was so successful that day that he would end up buried down the corpses. When their relatives digged to take food back home, they have found his body, with his head smashed. Proper noun Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump en A cliff in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta which is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Synonyms en Head-Smashed-In short form Hypernyms en buffalo jump Translations Blackfoot: bla Áísttsiipakihkínikottsi in References