Sleeping Buffalo Rock
Montana, US
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Sleeping Buffalo Rock is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located near Saco, Montana. It was added to the Register in 1996. These large rocks were landmarks known to all the native tribes in this area and considered sacred. They were once the largest rocks on the landscape and grou
nd down and transported by glaciers to where they stood on a ridge but as part of a group like buffalo are, and in prehistoric times were covered with petroglyphs by Native Americans. The smaller of the two rocks was carved to look like a buffalo and is called "Buffalo Rock", while the larger one is carved with a variety of symbols and designs and is called "Medicine Rock". When indigenous people visited where these rocks used to stand at a crossing on the Milk River they would leave offerings and pray for guidance, safe travel, courage and strength, a practice that is still carried on to this day although the rocks have been moved several times to their current location next to a modern highway. Typical prayer offerings include cloth, tobacco, bundles of sage, juniper leaves, and braided sweetgrass to invoke the aid of the Great Spirit. The placard reads: A nearby wind-swept ridge...
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