OTTAWA — The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has added Alberta’s Writing-on-Stone monument to its list of World Heritage Sites. The site, described as an “ancient and sacred cultural landscape where Indigenous peoples have created rock art for millennia,” is contained entirely within Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park. Known as Aisinai’pi (“it is pictured/written”) in Blackfoot, the site contains thousands of rock carvings and paintings, including some that chronicle historical events such as Indigenous People’s first contact with Europeans. It becomes Alberta’s sixth World Heritage Site, and the twentieth in Canada. Indigenous leaders and the federal and provincial environment ministers are among those praising the decision.

Source: National Post July 06, 2019 16:08 UTC