CA-K119Indigenous peoples & reconciliation

Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi, a sacred Blackfoot landscape

The Milk River and hoodoos at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Alberta, in 2025; it does not show the rock art. Milk River and Writing-on-stone Hoodoos · Nodin Cutfeet · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY 4.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.

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Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi, in Alberta’s Milk River Valley, is a sacred site where the Blackfoot (Siksikáítsitapi) left engravings and paintings on the sandstone walls. The landscape remains sacred to the Blackfoot and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.

Scope & context

The sacred landscape and its rock art, not the provincial park’s management or the dating of individual images.

Sources behind this record

Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi, Alberta ↗

Parks Canada (World Heritage Sites in Canada)

Date of Inscription; description