Writing-on-stone GemGlyphs

"Writing-On-Stone was located between the Blackfoot and numerous hostile nations to the south, in an area through which many different groups passed on military and hunting raids into Blackfoot territory. Because Natives used narrative art to boast of prowess and skill and to elevate their status, the heavy presence of this art at Writing-On-Stone in historic times is interpreted as a deliberate message to various enemy groups that the Blackfoot were a force best left unprovoked."

From Spiritual and Biographic to Boundary-Marking Deterrent Art
by Luc Bouchet-Bert

WRITING-ON-STONE GEMGLYPHS

The petroglyphs at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in Alberta are believed to have been a form of spiritual expression and a warning to their enemies that they were in Blackfoot territory.

"Writing-On-Stone was located between the Blackfoot and numerous hostile nations to the south, in an area through which many different groups passed on military and hunting raids into Blackfoot territory. Because Natives used narrative art to boast of prowess and skill and to elevate their status, the heavy presence of this art at Writing-On-Stone in historic times is interpreted as a deliberate message to various enemy groups that the Blackfoot were a force best left unprovoked." From Spiritual and Biographic to Boundary-Marking Deterrent Art by Luc Bouchet-Bert

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