Montana's native people revere Sleeping Buffalo Rock, a weather-worn boulder that once stood high on a ridge above the Cree Crossing on the Milk River and resembled the leader of a herd of reclining buffalo in gray granite. Ancient markings define its horns, eyes, backbone, and ribs, and since late prehistoric times native people of the Northern Plains have honored its spiritual power. Oral traditions among the Cree, Chippewa, Sioux, Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Blackfeet, Crow, and Northern Cheyenne tell how the "herd" fooled buffalo-hunting parties. Though each tribe has its own culture and beliefs, Montana tribes share worldview, and a Chippewa-Cree elder said, "These rocks are sacred, just like our old people." Relocated to Malta's City Park in 1932, the Sleeping Buffalo was said by locals to be restless, changing positions and bellowing at night. It reached its final resting place in 1967, and the smaller Medicine Rock, also collected near Cree Crossing, was reunited with it in 1987. These objects continue to figure prominently in traditional ceremonies, linking the present with the past when the power of the prairie was the buffalo.