“You Step First”

If memory serves, we didn’t get out to the site until the Autumn.  The crew was small.  The head archaeologist was Tony Buchner, with me as his assistant and one other archaeologist in tow.  For part of the project, a Plains Cree from the Cypress Hills was hired, whose name was Harry Buffalo Calf.

The Swift Current petroglyph site consists of a single glacial erratic made of dolomite that sits perched on a projection of high ground overlooking the Swift Current River.  Back then, it was surro...