Easing Alberta drought conditions slowly ending rare archaeological opportunity

"Blackfoot people have been saying, 'We've lived on this land since the day of creation,'" says Dr. Eldon Yellowhorn, archaeologist and a professor at Simon Fraser University. The Blackfoot people say they have always lived here. Western science is slowly coming to the same conclusion, helped in part by the exceptionally low water levels of the past two years. "Because we have an oral history, the archaeological record is our only archive," Yellowhorn says. "As an archaeologist, I can corroborat