DCHP-3

Sand Hills

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a region in southeastern Alberta, long sacred to the Plains Indians, often a euphemism for death. See 1957 quote.

Quotations

1838
People may say it is a pity that so many Indians are gone to the Sanday Hills.
1949
. . . Nothing marks the spot where some mighty chief or minor brave sleeps, while his spirit travels the trails of the Great Sand Hills.
1957
The sun dance site is in the heart of the 50-mile-square Blood reserve about 40 miles south of Lethbridge. There are situated the sacred sand hills and the happy hunting grounds for departed spirits.
1959
Little Tree would have to go unadorned to the Sand Hills, for her daughter could not part with the red glass beads.