{"id":978,"date":"2025-05-22T08:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorekananaskis-mediahub.nestingstage.com\/story_starter\/a-land-of-living-stories\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:41:28","slug":"a-land-of-living-stories","status":"publish","type":"story_starter","link":"https:\/\/explorekananaskis.com\/media-hub\/story_starter\/a-land-of-living-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"A Land of Living Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long before ski lifts and summit talks, the valleys and peaks of Kananaskis held stories far older\u2014carried in the footsteps of the Blackfoot, Stoney Nakoda, Tsuut\u2019ina, and M\u00e9tis peoples who have lived here for millennia. This land, within Treaty 7 territory, is more than a wilderness playground\u2014it\u2019s a place of deep cultural significance. From the legend of Kin-e-a-kis to the Stoney Nakoda name \u201cOzada,\u201d meaning \u201cmeeting of the waters,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/indigenoustourismalberta.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indigenous<\/a> roots of Kananaskis run deep. Today, those stories continue to shape the region through language, landmarks, and community-led tourism that honours traditional knowledge and connection to the land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4003,"template":"","primary_bucket":[255,256,257],"story-tag":[101,132,106],"story-category":[292],"class_list":["post-978","story_starter","type-story_starter","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","primary_bucket-culture","primary_bucket-heritage","primary_bucket-set-jetting","story-tag-destination","story-tag-indigenous","story-tag-rocky-mountains","story-category-set-jetting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorekananaskis.com\/media-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_starter\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorekananaskis.com\/media-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_starter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorekananaskis.com\/media-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/story_starter"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorekananaskis.com\/media-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorekananaskis.com\/media-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"primary_bucket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorekananaskis.com\/media-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/primary_bucket?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"story-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorekananaskis.com\/media-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story-tag?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"story-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorekananaskis.com\/media-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story-category?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}