Ktunaxa Connectedness to the Land
The Ktunaxa Creation Story clearly points out that Columbia Lake is a main focus of Ktunaxa history. The Columbia Headwaters also contains many pre-historic Aboriginal archaeological sites, and is the subject of many stories that have been passed down generationally. The Ktunaxa people are intimately tied to the land in the Columbia Headwaters and have a legacy of use and connectedness, creating a Ktunaxa Cultural Landscape.

An Aboriginal Cultural Landscape is a place valued by an Aboriginal group because of their long and complex relationship with that land. It expresses their unity with the natural and spiritual environment. It embodies their traditional knowledge of spirits, places, land uses and ecology. Material remains of the association may be prominent, but will often be minimal or absent.

This relationship between the land and the Ktunaxa people, when absent, does not allow new generations of Ktunaxa to connect with their ancestry. Losing this connection to the land is a loss of connection to culture.

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