Imagining Head-Smashed-In : Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting On The Northern Plains

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National Historic Site of Canada — Situated west of Fort Macleod, Alberta, this archaeological site preserves a buffalo jump used by Plains nations for over 2,000 years. Today, it also serves as an interpretive centre, offering insight into one of the continent’s oldest known sites of communal hunting.

Imagining Head-Smashed-In by Jack W. Brink explores the history of the Plains Indigenous peoples’ communal bison hunts at one of North America’s archaeological sites. Drawing on years of research, Brink recounts the ingenuity, coordination, and cultural depth behind these mass hunts, while also offering a behind-the-scenes look at the site's excavation and the creation of the interpretive centre.