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{{Alberta topics}}
What is today the province of [[Alberta]], [[Canada]], has a [[history]] and [[prehistory]] stretching back thousands of years. Recorded or written history begins with the arrival of [[Ethnic groups in Europe|Europeans]]. The [[Soil type|rich soil]] was ideal for growing [[wheat]] and the vast [[prairie]] grasslands were great for raising [[cattle]]. The coming of the [[railroad]]s in the late [[19th century]] led a to large-scale migration of [[farmer]]s and [[cattleman]] from [[Eastern Canada]], the [[United States]], and Europe. Wheat and cattle remain important, but the farms are much larger now and the rural population much smaller. Alberta has [[Urbanization|urbanized]] and its economic base has expanded from the export of wheat and cattle to include the export of [[petroleum]] as well.
==Native groups==
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Following the arrival of outside European observers it is possible to reconstruct a rough narrative history of the nations of what later became Alberta. Using later-recorded oral histories as well as [[Archaeology|archaeological]] and [[Linguistics|linguistic]] evidence, it also possible to make inferences back further in time. In both cases the evidentiary base is thin, however.
It is believed that at least some parts of the [[Great Plains]] were depopulated by a [[Megadrought|prolonged period of the drought]] during the [[Medieval Warm Period]] ({{circa|950|1250}}). The area was repopulated once the drought subsided, by peoples from a diverse number of language families and from all parts of the North American continent. The [[Numic languages]] (for example [[Comanche language|Comanche]] and [[Shoshoni language|Shoshoni]]) are from the [[Uto-Aztecan language]] family and came to the Plains from the southwest. [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]] speakers ([[Plains Cree language|Plains Cree]], [[Blackfoot language|Blackfoot]], [[Western Ojibwa language|Saulteaux]]) are originally from the northeast. The [[Siouan languages|Siouxan]] peoples ([[Great Sioux Nation|Great Sioux]], [[Assiniboine people|Assiniboine]], [[Nakoda (Stoney)|Nakoda]], [[Mandan]], [[Crow Nation|Crow]], etc.) speak a family of languages different from both of the above, and are from southeast. There are also small offshoots of the [[Na-Dene language]]s from the far northwest found on the Plains, including the [[Tsuu T'ina]].
==== Lodges, bands, tribes, and confederacies ====
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