Buffalo Rock miners on left – 2nd from right, Tracy Day Chief, owner, Buffalo Rock Mining – far right, president Amarjeet Grewal. Image: Amanda Stutt.
According to the legend, Iniskim – meaning Buffalo Healing Stone in Blackfoot language – brought prosperity back to peoples stricken with famine and starvation on prairie plains.
Long ago, as the story is told, one sister among three out collecting firewood heard singing, leading her to a rock that spoke, telling her the buffalo, a vital source of food and warmth, could hear it – and that it would call the buffalo back, after herds had wandered too far from the camp.
The rock was the ammonite, which the Blackfoot peoples still consider a sacred stone that brings prosperity. The only known reserves in the world are in the Bearpaw Formation, which spans the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the US state of Montana, but…
