Blood Tribe seeks massive land claim in Federal Court – CBC

Alberta First Nation believes its reserve should have spread into Cardston, Waterton Lakes National Park

Jun 24, 2018

In the Blood Tribe’s oral history, there is the story of Blood Clot.

He was swallowed whole by an animal and escaped by slicing its belly open with a knife. According to the legend, the beast’s intestines spilled out and became the Belly Buttes of southern Alberta. The traditional home of the Blood people.

“Within these lands, the Blood Tribe was created, and it is within these lands that the Blood Tribe developed both a practical and a spiritual existence,” states a 2007 report by the Indian Claims Commission on the band’s boundaries.

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