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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: First Peoples Buffalo Jump Alternative Name: Ulm Pishkun State Park
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 72.494 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The Northwest Mountains Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Ulm  Nearest Village: Great Falls
Latitude: 47.479000N  Longitude: 111.525W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1Completely destroyed
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 5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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First Peoples Buffalo Jump
First Peoples Buffalo Jump submitted by Flickr : The nonchalant one was apparently in Dances with Wolves Image copyright: krissybird (Krissy Bird), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A visitor center and interpretive trails tell the story of this prehistoric bison kill site, one of the largest in the United States. For over two thousand years, Indians stampeded buffalo over the mile-long cliff. Now, the top of the jump gives you panoramic views of the Rocky Mountain Front, the Missouri River valley, and the buttes and grasslands that characterized this High Plains setting.

Plan at least a two-hour stop in this day-use-only park.

Montana State Parks in cooperation with the public developed the Ulm Pishkun State Park management plan. The plan focuses staff efforts on managing the park's natural and cultural resources, visitor services, park infrastructure, tourism, and educational programs.

For more information about Ulm Pishkun State Park, read Where the Buffalo Fell, 2003 Montana Outdoors article.

Directions
10 miles south of Great Falls on I-15 at Ulm Exit, then 3.5 miles northwest on Ulm-Vaughn road.

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First Peoples Buffalo Jump
First Peoples Buffalo Jump submitted by Flickr : Stained Glass at First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park, Montana Image copyright: krissybird (Krissy Bird), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

First Peoples Buffalo Jump
First Peoples Buffalo Jump submitted by Flickr : First Peoples Sign First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park near Ulm, Montana Image copyright: jimmywayne (Jimmy Emerson, DVM), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

First Peoples Buffalo Jump
First Peoples Buffalo Jump submitted by Flickr : Cliffs Under a Big Sky The cliff in the foreground is the edge of a buffalo jump at First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park outside of Great Falls, Montana. The jump is a National Historic Landmark and could be the largest jump site in North America. The visitor center has an extensive historical display, including a brain tan bison hide tipi (my favorite). They tell the story of the buffalo hu... (Vote or comment on this photo)

First Peoples Buffalo Jump
First Peoples Buffalo Jump submitted by Flickr : At this state park near Great Falls, Native Americans herded bison to the edge of a cliff, then stampeded them off and slaughtered them as an efficient means of gathering the items the Indians needed for their lives. I struggled with how to capture the expanse of big sky, but I think my wife came pretty close with this photo. It shows me standing near the edge of the cliff (the edge of the gray ro... (Vote or comment on this photo)

First Peoples Buffalo Jump
First Peoples Buffalo Jump submitted by Flickr : At the edge of the jump Image copyright: SheltieBoy, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

First Peoples Buffalo Jump
First Peoples Buffalo Jump submitted by Flickr : First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park, Montana Image copyright: krissybird (Krissy Bird), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

First Peoples Buffalo Jump
First Peoples Buffalo Jump submitted by Flickr : First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park At the Interpretive Center Image copyright: SheltieBoy, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

First Peoples Buffalo Jump
First Peoples Buffalo Jump submitted by Flickr : First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park, Montana Image copyright: krissybird (Krissy Bird), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

First Peoples Buffalo Jump
First Peoples Buffalo Jump submitted by Flickr : This is at First People's Buffalo Jump State Park, in Montana Image copyright: montanatom1950, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

First Peoples Buffalo Jump
First Peoples Buffalo Jump submitted by Flickr : First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park At the Interpretive Center Image copyright: SheltieBoy, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Re: Local archeologist leads statewide survey of Paleoindian points by Anonymous on Thursday, 05 August 2010
My wife and I dropped in at Ulm Pishkun a few months ago, and found the name changed (some potentially interested visitors hadn't known to visit the place with its old name). The new name seems to be (I'm pretty sure I recall correctly) "First Nations Buffalo Jump," the first two words having been chosen after extensive consultation with local Native American tribes. (If I'm wrong about the new name, I'm at least not far wrong.)
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    To Anon Re: Ulm Pushkun/First Peoples Buffulo Jump by bat400 on Friday, 06 August 2010
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    Since you visited recently, would you like to comment on the site?
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    Re: Local archeologist leads statewide survey of Paleoindian points by Anonymous on Tuesday, 03 January 2023
    It is First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park.
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Local archeologist leads statewide survey of Paleoindian points by Andy B on Sunday, 11 October 2009
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Local archeologist leads statewide survey of Paleoindian points

The tools that Montana's early peoples left behind hold invaluable clues to piecing together the state's early history.

Archeologists say the state is brimming with these clues but they're hard to find and often it's not the archeologists who unearth them.

Ruthann Knudson, a semi-retired archeologist and adjunct professor in Great Falls, estimates that 95 percent of Paleoindian artifacts (defined as those older than about 8,500 years) are found by people she calls "avocational archeologists."

Knudson said farmers, ranchers, hikers and the like — the Montanans who work the land and know how to read the land — are the best collectors because they're the ones out in Montana's vast spaces.

"Collecting is about loving the land, and picking up a piece of it," she said.

But that means a lot of Paleoindian artifacts — which are mostly "fluted" points, stone tips of tools characterized by their "fluted" grooves — are scattered across the state, in homes, on farms on ranches, even in safety deposit boxes.

"We just don't know where a lot of these things are," Knudson says.

Which is why Knudson has teamed with the Montana Historical Society and state archeologist Stan Wilmoth to take a statewide survey of Paleoindian artifacts.

"We want to get more people talking about what they know and what they have," Knudson says.

Archeologist Leslie Davis did pioneering work in the late '80s on Paleoindian artifacts, which unearthed many new pieces, but this will be the first broad-based survey in the state, Wilmoth said.

Knudson and Wilmoth are asking private collectors to submit digital photos, descriptions and if possible, approximate locations of their artifacts, either directly to Knudson or via an online form available on the Society's Web site. (www.montanahistoricalsociety. org/shpo/forms.asp)

Some information, such as the specific location of the find or the owners' names would be made public only with permission.

The archeologists are interested in any information, even if it's just a description of an artifact or some knowledge of where artifacts might be.

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20091009/LIFESTYLE/910090319
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Montana State to buy second half of Ulm Pishkun buffalo jump by Andy B on Friday, 28 July 2006
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The state Land Board has recommended buying the back half of one of the largest and oldest prehistoric buffalo kill sites in North America.

The state would pay $763,147 for 898 acres adjoining the Ulm Pishkun State Park to the north. That's about $850 an acre.

"That was number one on Fish, Wildlife & Parks' acquisition list," Mary Sexton, director of the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, said Tuesday.

"It works for us because we'll get a fair return on our investment and protect some valuable land for the public," she said.

The Land Board is expected to complete the transaction by year's end, she said.

Concerned that developers would snap up the land, the All Nations Pishkun Association had been lobbying the state to buy the remainder of the buffalo jump from Eustance Ranch Inc.

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