Wanuskewin Heritage Park is a National historic site, interpretive centre, natural conservation area, and active archaeological site. The renewal project was born of the need to rejuvenate the existing park, but evolved into a substantial park expansion because of the desire to dream big. Memories of people’s stories who have gathered at Wanuskewin for the past 6400 years are anchored in the landscape through habitation sites, tipi rings and a medicine wheel, bison jumps and pounds, and rubbing rocks. The renewal landscape design responded as a story-telling medium, through interpretive, symbolic, and restorative elements that further ground the stories of early Indigenous people and their sacred relationship to the land. The project includes a major expansion of the east plaza including collaboration with indigenous artists, west plaza and bison lookout, site furnishings and interpretive and wayfinding signage, bison supporting landscape and native prairie re-establishment, trail and bridge improvements, and destination playground.
