The Assiniboine traded corn received from
the Mandan and other village tribes,
 in what is North Dakota today.
They traded with Axes, Knives, Bullets, and gunpowder
from the French and English Traders.
They hunted in the Souris Valley in the Winter,
and the Turtle Mountains in the summer.

First White Man visits are reported in my
History of Coal in the Area
web page.

(Dr.) Sir James Hector, (1834-1907) F.R.S.
Scottish Geologist, Naturalist and Surgeon,
who was part of the Palliser Expedition in 1857,
 made reference to the petroglyphs in the area.
In 1857 he was appointed surgeon and geologist
 on this Government expedition
 for the exploration of western Canada.
 It started in Detroit in June 1857,
and ended at Vancouver Island in January 1860.
Hector Mountain is named after him,
Kicking Horse Pass was named after him,
 getting kicked by a horse there, and nearly died there.
Shortly after the expedition, he went to New Zealand
where he got married and had children.
He is very famous there as well,
with the Hector Dolphin named after him.
Later in life he came back to Canada,
for a short time, as a guest of the CPR,
then he went back to New Zealand where he died.


Dr. George Mercer Dawson (1849-1901)
visited Roche Percee in 1879.
He reported on the Sandstone Rock Structure,
and sketched a number of the petroglyphs.
He was a Canadian Scientist and Surveyor.

 In 1939, Prof. William John Wintemberg, (1876-1941) F.R.S.C.,
an Archaeologist with the Victoria Memorial Museum
(later National Museum of Canada)
also reported on the petroglyph carvings.

Dr. Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn (1824-1902) F.R.S.,
a British Geologist,
and Director of the Geological Survey of Canada
made a visit, just prior to 1906,
and reported on the Coal.