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Natural PlacesSite Name: Mistasiniy Alternative Name: Buffalo Child Stone
Country: Canada
NOTE: This site is 216.512 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Saskatoon  Nearest Village: Mistusinne
Latitude: 51.057220N  Longitude: 106.54097W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 Destroyed Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 1 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
0No data.
 1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Mistasiniy
Mistasiniy submitted by TheDruid-3X3 : Site in Canada. 3rd Party Archival Picture. This is a Picture of the Stone taken about a year before it was Blown Up. It has the Tribal Elder Wilfred Tootoosis posing next to it. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A large glacial erratic deposited after the last ice age. The stone, thought to resemble a resting buffalo, is estimated to have weighed 400 tons and was a sacred site - not only to the Plains Cree, but to other First Nations who traversed the prairies. During the 1960s, when it became apparent the stone would be submerged by the rising waters of Lake Diefenbaker, efforts were made to save the mistasiniy. A long campaign led by the late Zenon S. Pohorecky, professor of anthropology and archaeology at the University of Saskatchewan, to move the rock to higher ground ultimately proved unsuccessful. Many believe a “quiet” decision was made to quell the lobby - on the morning of December 1, 1966, a crew from the PFRA (Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration) arrived with a reported 60 sticks of dynamite and reduced the millennia-old stone to rubble. This archive picture was taken with Tribal Elder Wilfred Tootoosis about a year before the stone was blown up.

Fragments were later incorporated into a cairn at Elbow Harbour and a memorial to Chief Poundmaker on the Poundmaker Cree Nation reserve in the Cut Knife area. The remainder now lies submerged.

The name of the nearby town of Mistusinne is derived from the Cree word mistasiniy, meaning “big stone”. The stone was located on the floor of the Qu’Appelle Valley just east of the elbow of the South Saskatchewan River, 8 km southeast of the village of Elbow off Hwy 19, on the northeast shore of the Gordon McKenzie Arm of Lake Diefenbaker, Canada.
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Mistasiniy
Mistasiniy submitted by TheDruid-3X3 : Site in Canada. 3rd Party Archival Photo. The Mistansiniy Buffalo Stone just as it was being Blown Up. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Mistasiniy
Mistasiniy submitted by TheDruid-3X3 : Site in Canada. The Mistasiniy Buffalo Stone after it had been Blown Up. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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