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Sweet Grass Hills

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The Sweet Grass Hills (Blackfoot: kátoyissiksi, Cheyenne: vé'ho'ôhtsévóse, Salish: ččaɫalqn, "three peaks") are a small group of low mountains rising more than 3,000 feet above the surrounding plains southwest of Whitlash, Montana in Liberty and Toole County, Montana. [1]

30 relations: Alberta, Alberta Highway 3, America's Most Endangered Places, Blackfoot Confederacy, Blackfoot language, Canada–United States border, Cheyenne language, Crowsnest Highway, Douglas fir, Ice age, Igneous rock, Intrusive rock, Laurentide Ice Sheet, Liberty County, Montana, List of mountain ranges in Montana, Medicine Hat, Milk River (Alberta–Montana), Milk River Ridge, Montana, Paleogene, Rocky Mountains, Salish-Spokane-Kalispel language, Shrine, Stock (geology), Sweet Grass, Montana, Toole County, Montana, U.S. Route 2, Whitlash, Montana, Wolfers (hunting), 49th parallel north.

Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

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Alberta Highway 3

Alberta Provincial Highway No. 3, commonly referred to as Highway 3 and officially named the Crowsnest Highway, is a highway that traverses southern Alberta, Canada, running from the Crowsnest Pass through Lethbridge to the Trans-Canada Highway in Medicine Hat.

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America's Most Endangered Places

America's Most Endangered Places or America's Most Endangered Historic Places is a list of places in the United States that the National Trust for Historic Preservation considers the most endangered.

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Blackfoot Confederacy

The Blackfoot Confederacy, Niitsitapi or Siksikaitsitapi (ᖹᐟᒧᐧᒣᑯ, meaning "the people" or "Blackfoot-speaking real people"Compare to Ojibwe: Anishinaabeg and Quinnipiac: Eansketambawg) is a historic collective name for the four bands that make up the Blackfoot or Blackfeet people: three First Nation band governments in the provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia, and one federally recognized Native American tribe in Montana, United States.

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Blackfoot language

The Blackfoot language, also called Siksiká (ᓱᖽᐧᖿ, its denomination in ISO 639-3), (Siksiká siksiká, syllabics ᓱᖽᐧᖿ), often anglicised as Siksika, is an Algonquian language spoken by the Niitsitapi people, who currently live in the northwestern plains of North America.

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Canada–United States border

The Canada–United States border, officially known as the International Boundary, is the longest international border in the world between two countries.

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Cheyenne language

The Cheyenne language (Tsėhésenėstsestȯtse), or Tsisinstsistots, is the Native American language spoken by the Cheyenne people, predominantly in present-day Montana and Oklahoma, in the United States.

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Crowsnest Highway

The Crowsnest Highway is an east-west highway in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada.

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Douglas fir

Pseudotsuga menziesii, commonly known as Douglas fir, Douglas-fir and Oregon pine, is an evergreen conifer species native to western North America.

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Ice age

An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Igneous rock

Igneous rock (derived from the Latin word ignis meaning fire), or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.

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Intrusive rock

Intrusive rock (also called plutonic rock) is formed when magma crystallizes and solidifies underground to form intrusions, for example plutons, batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.

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Laurentide Ice Sheet

The Laurentide Ice Sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square kilometers, including most of Canada and a large portion of the northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs— from 2.588 ± 0.005 million years ago to the present.

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Liberty County, Montana

Liberty County is a county located in the U.S. state of Montana.

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List of mountain ranges in Montana

This is a list of mountain ranges in the state of Montana. Montana is the fourth largest state in the United States and is well known for its mountains.

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Medicine Hat

Medicine Hat is a city in southeast Alberta, Canada located along the South Saskatchewan River.

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Milk River (Alberta–Montana)

The Milk River is a tributary of the Missouri River, long, in the United States state of Montana and the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Milk River Ridge

The Milk River Ridge is a high, flat ridge in southwestern Alberta, Canada.

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Montana

Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States.

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Paleogene

The Paleogene (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene; informally Lower Tertiary or Early Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Mya.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Salish-Spokane-Kalispel language

The Salish or Séliš language, also known as Kalispel–Pend d'oreille, Kalispel–Spokane–Flathead, or, to distinguish it from the Salish language family to which it gave its name, Montana Salish, is a Salishan language spoken (as of 2005) by about 64 elders of the Flathead Nation in north central Montana and of the Kalispel Indian Reservation in northeastern Washington state, and by another 50 elders (as of 2000) of the Spokane Indian Reservation of Washington.

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Shrine

A shrine (scrinium "case or chest for books or papers"; Old French: escrin "box or case") is a holy or sacred place, which is dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, daemon, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which they are venerated or worshipped.

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Stock (geology)

In geology, a stock is an igneous intrusion that has a surface exposure of less than, differing from batholiths only in being smaller.

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Sweet Grass, Montana

Sweet Grass (also Sweetgrass) is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Toole County, Montana, United States, on the Canada–US border.

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Toole County, Montana

Toole County is a county located in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Montana.

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U.S. Route 2

U.S. Route 2 or U.S. Highway 2 (US 2) is an east–west U.S. Highway spanning across the northern continental United States.

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Whitlash, Montana

Whitlash is an unincorporated community in northwestern Liberty County, Montana, United States, about five miles south of the province of Alberta across the Canada–US border.

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Wolfers (hunting)

Wolfers was a term used to refer to both professional and civilian wolf hunters who operated in North America in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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49th parallel north

The 49th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 49° north of Earth's equator.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Grass_Hills

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