Lethbridge - Indian Battle Park and Fort Whoop-Up Interpretive Centre

Indian Battle Park on the Oldman River commemorates the great Indian battle in 1870 between the Blackfoot Confederation and the Cree Indians, when an attack by the Cree with their allies the Assiniboine on the camp of the Blackfoot, already weakened by an outbreak of smallpox, was repulsed but at the cost of almost 400 lives.

Indian Battle Park at Lethbridge, offers a variety of outdoor space for sports and activities. Located within Indian Battle Park is the Fort Whoop-Up Interpretive Centre. This is a reconstruction of Southern Alberta's first and most notorious buffalo hide trading post. With the arrival of the Northwest Mounted Police in the 1870s the problems of lawlessness came to an end.

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