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Indigenous Experience

A group visiting Banff for the Global Incentive Summit take part in a Medicine Walk with Mahikan Trails at Cascade Ponds in Banff National ParkA group visiting Banff for the Global Incentive Summit take part in a Medicine Walk with Mahikan Trails at Cascade Ponds in Banff National Park

Banff Medicine walk

It’s an eye-opening experience when you take a walk in a mountain meadow or through the forest with Brenda Holder. She can point to and identify any plant, tree or bush and tell you how it can be used to make something crucial to survival – a fire cider for a flu or cold, a food source or a fire starter.

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Artifacts and mannequins covered with traditional Indigenous clothing displayed at Buffalo Nations Museum in Banff National Park.Artifacts and mannequins covered with traditional Indigenous clothing displayed at Buffalo Nations Museum in Banff National Park.

Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum

The Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum is dedicated to the appreciation, interpretation, demonstration, and display of the cultures, traditions, and values of the First Nations of North America and their trading partners. The museum seeks to show how the people of this land lived and adapted to their surroundings and each other prior to contact with European culture and how they continued to adapt after European influences.

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A couple explores the Nightrise Event held at the Banff Gondola in Banff National ParkA couple explores the Nightrise Event held at the Banff Gondola in Banff National Park

Nightrise

Nightrise honours the magic of sacred mountains — a place of gathering since time immemorial for many, including for the Stoney Nakoda People (Îyârhe Îethka).

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