🏛️ Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi

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Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park is located about 100 kilometres (60 mi) southeast of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, or 44 kilometres (30 mi) east of the community of Milk River, and straddles the Milk River itself. It is one of the largest areas of protected prairie in the Alberta park system, and serves as both a nature preserve and protection for many First Nations (indigenous) rock carvings and paintings. The park is sacred to the Blackfoot and other Indigenous peoples.

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Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi is a cultural World Heritage site in Canada, in Americas. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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