See also: Iron Stone medicine stone
- 1952  The Manito Stone was . . . sacred to most of the Plains tribes, for obviously it was no ordinary stone; their legends said it had come down from the sky.
- 1962  . . . the Manitou Stone was a large meteorite which had lain on a hill top in southern Alberta so long that rain and the reverent hands of pilgrims had polished it till it shone like silver in the moonlight.