Medicine Wheels near Minton, SK
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Turtle Effigy Drawing
Central Cairn
Sign at entrance

Sketch of the Effigy

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In the summer of 2006 I visited this site as well as a number of others in the area. The scenery is breathtaking as well as dry as a bone.

Turtle Butte has a figure of a turtle on it and it is made up of boulders, placed side by side to form the figure of a turtle. This is on the north side of the Big Muddy Lake, about 8 miles west of the village of Minton.

Wild Man's Butte, about 9 miles south of the village of Gladmar, has a figure of a woman on it. The figure directs the visitor to enter a sacred circule of stones. On the site of the hill there are traces of effigies of at least one eagle. This site is not open to the public and arrangements with the landowner that lives nearby must be arranged before visiting this site.

In the Big Beaver area two of these monuments can be found; one is a figure of a buffalo and the other is a "medicine wheel".

By far, the largest of these is the turtle. It is over 120 feet long. Buffalo runs are also to be found in the district. The main one is situated on the North side of the lake. by May Zyla.


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