Shawn Charlebois was out harvesting materials on his property near Swan River recently when he noticed parts of a skull sticking out of a riverbank.
And the skull turned out to be one of a bison, so he got his son and they got it out of the bank and took it home, which was a thrill for them.
"We were over the moon excited, I am a real dedicated educator and I love bringing people to the land," said Charlebois.
The skull is estimated to be at least 100 years old and as soon as Shawn and his son found the skull, it was given to Shawn's wife so she could take it to her school to show the kids.
"The kids were super excited, it's not something you see every day," offered Charlebois.
Charlebois, who owns Red Road Compass, an Indigenous land-based education program, said he has found other animal skulls and even bison vertebrae in the past, but nothing this deeply buried. Charlebois says it was about two and a half feet underneath the riverbank.
