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Sand Hills 
a region in southeastern Alberta, long sacred to the Plains Indians, often a euphemism for death. See 1957 quote.
- 1838 (1947) People may say it is a pity that so many Indians are gone to the Sanday Hills.
- 1949 . . . Nothing marks the spot where some mighty chief or minor brave sleeps, while his spirit travels the trails of the Great Sand Hills.
- 1957 The sun dance site is in the heart of the 50-mile-square Blood reserve about 40 miles south of Lethbridge. There are situated the sacred sand hills and the happy hunting grounds for departed spirits.
- 1959 Little Tree would have to go unadorned to the Sand Hills, for her daughter could not part with the red glass beads.
- 1838 (1947) People may say it is a pity that so many Indians are gone to the Sanday Hills.