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These Mountains Are Our Sacred Places, now in its second edition, is an authentic history of the Stoney people. The book describes with sensitivity the Indigenous world and world view pre- and post-treaty. Through archival records, tribal oral history and the traditional spirituality and wisdom of the Stoney-Nakoda people, the late Chief John Snow creates a history of his own people. The book describes the cultural beliefs and values of the Stoney, how they have been preserved in oral traditional and how they have affected Stoney attitudes toward modern life. It describes why, Snow writes in the preface, the Stoney people "do not separate the political and the economic from the social and the religious and how threads of each are interwoven throughout all Stoney reasoning. It describes Indian reverence for and association with nature." Published by Fifth House as a Western Canadian Classic.