Big Bison Hunt

This iPad app has been created for students across the state of Montana. It has been generously funded through the Title II, Improving Teacher Quality Grant program in the Montana Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education. There are three partners on this project: middle school teachers from Hellgate Elementary School in Missoula, Montana, the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Montana, and the Native American Studies Department at the University of Montana.

Working together, we have created an app based largely on the research conducted at Head-Smashed-In buffalo jump in southern Alberta. Archæologist Jack W. Brink published the findings in the book Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains, which was published in 2008 by the Athabasca University Press. It is freely available online at http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120137.