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Woyuha hnebi bathtabi: a project to increase Îethka access to museum collections

This is a website about research being undertaken in collaboration with Îethka to better understand and perhaps maybe improve their relationships with museums and heritage. On this website you will find information about the research (and how it develops), the researcher and collaborators, projects that grow from the research and background information about issues related to museums in the Bow Valley and beyond.

A yellowing long-grass prairie field with old tire tracks running straight from the camera off to the distance. The tire tracks stop at a stand of pine trees, and grey mountains can be seen in the distance rising above them.

In the foreground a sign in the shape of a house with a cross on top. It reads "McDougall Memorial United Church." Underneath are sylabics, and the words "Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set" In the distant background a church and outbuilding are visible.

The word "Museum" is mounted on a wall that appears like a historic fort with logs vertically arranged shaved to points on top. Beside the Museum sign is an image of a bison skull

A grassy hillside in fall with yellowing tress. The sky is blue with white clouds overhead.

A trailing bonnet style headdress in a glass case within a museum.

The sun sets over distant foothills. In the foreground is a swampy pond with a beaver lodge visible.

A gravel road runs straight down the middle of the image with green and yellow leafy trees on either side.

Several people walk away from the camera up a green grassy hill towards a tipi in the distance.

A gravel road in the foreground, on the far side of the road a herd of horses stands in the shade of a stand of trees.

a bench overlooks Barrier Lake in Kananiskis. It is early fall, it looks cold but trees are still green.

Image of a mountain and a pond in fall. The mountain reflects onto the still pond.

Image of sunset sky over a gravel road

Image of ground with plants and a rock, a rack of mule deer antlers lay discarded.

close up of shore of bow river emerging from mountains, with large mountain in shadow behind.

A grey mountain stretches up from a gravely beach with pine trees.

A sign-post describing art (not pictured) in an Indigenous art park.

A person's back and arms are visible as they scrape fat off an animal hide stretched on a rack.

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