Wood Buffalo Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
specialized municipality in northeastern Alberta, Canada
About Wood Buffalo
This region is primarily is part of the sparsly populatedboreal forest. The world famous (or infamous) Athabasca Oilsands (aka the "tar sands", a term that is locally viewed with negative connotations) are located here. The region was first populated by indigenous peoples. The Chipewyan people (who are part of the Dene or Athapascan language family) lived here at the beginnings of European contact (early 1700s), but were soon joined by the Cree people (from the Algonquian language family) from the east. Both peoples were nomadic and hunted bison (aka "buffalo") on the plains and moose (aka "elk") in the forests and also harvested with many smaller game animals, fish, berries, roots, and so on. The Athabasca oil sands were known to the indigenous peoples and the surface deposits were used t
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