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![]() Ktunaxa Travel Nomadic People
Trails The most important trail for the Ktunaxa led through the North Kootenay Pass. This trail allowed them to reach the prairies in Alberta where they hunted for bison. Bison hunts were very important because, when successful, they would feed the band throughout the long cold winter. When it was time for the hunt they usually reached the North Kootenay Pass by following the Wigwam River, south of present-day Elko, then east. There was more than just one trail that went from the upper Kootenay Valley to the prairies of Alberta. These other routes may have been shorter but they were not used very often. One of these trails went through a place that we know very well, the Crownest Pass. Before the first road was built through the pass the forest was too thick for the Ktunaxa to cut through. It could take them weeks or months to make the hard journey.
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