GC552XD Mondo's NAT # 512 - Siksika
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: mondou2 @ | Hide Date: 05/17/2014 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 57.219 W104° 56.575 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
             

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Native American Tribes series.

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Siksika

 

 The Siksika band of the Blackfoot Confederacy, are the people for which the confederacy is named. Siksika literally means "Black Foot,” thought to have been called such because of the discoloring of their moccasins by the ashes of prairie fires. The Siksika, like the other Blackfoot tribes were powerful buffalo-hunters. The first arrival of Europeans initially  pleased them because of the horses that they brought, which quickly made buffalo-hunting a far easier task. However, this changed when smallpox epidemics ravaged the Blackfoot population in the mid-1800's. Furthering the Blackfoot animosity were the encroachment of white settlers upon their lands and frequent attacks upon their peoples. When the buffalo were gone, the Siksika had not choice but to settle on reservations.

 

Today, the Siksika Nation is in Alberta, Canada about one hour's drive east of the city of Calgary. Their total population is about 4,200.

05/29/2022 By Tremarc
Could not dislodge it

03/31/2022 By gweevo
I think I found it but couldn't dislodge it. TFTC

06/27/2021 By bkramer81
So tiny and cute! Just use your intuition. Tiny lil tube

04/05/2021 By Nutmegballs
My son’s small fingers were integral to retrieving this one. No pencil, so just logging here.

11/01/2020 By UnicornOV
Small container

07/02/2019 By Ahuja
We went to the spot but couldn't find it.

03/14/2019 By Kairi_C
Thank you for hiding this geocatch! A friend and I had a lot of fun searching for it :)

01/03/2019 By MXexplorers
Thanks for the cache!!!!!

12/23/2018 By ShaneLee1978
Sweet

05/06/2018 By mondou2
Replaced

03/17/2018 By WalkingDuo
I rode this path 5 years ago but didn't make it this far north if it even existed here then.

11/26/2017 By mondou2
Log had been replaced

11/24/2017 By AuntMichele
Found it on my morning walk! Thanks

10/30/2017 By Nighthawkers
Out with cache-kid #3 while waiting for cache-kid #2 to finish piano lessons nearby. Log was too wet to remove or sign, so we took a photo for verification. TFTC and history.

GC552XD

10/08/2017 By jeffrey040581
Great cache mondo thanks for the nice walk

07/13/2017 By dmwicked2
Found it! Thanks

06/02/2017 By tamiuron
Thanks, mondou2! I really like this series. My daughter and her sons are on vacation, so I get to take care of her dog, making a visit in the early morning, noon, and evening in far north Arvada. I had some time this morning to visit Thornton between visit. This is a part of the pocket query of the caches I have not found yet close to home.
--tamiuron, sign nano logs TRON

04/08/2017 By cajrrman
I went for a little 36 mile bike ride today to get some exercise and find some caches including this one at 10:27 AM. It was a beautiful day to be out riding and caching. I enjoyed all the caches I found. Thanks for the cache and for making my route more fun!

03/06/2017 By RickySpanish26
AWESOME