Historically, the people traveled over a vast territory from the Hudson Bay to the Rocky Mountains, along the foothills to Montana USA. Allied with the Cree, the Nakoda, acquiring modern tools and goods from the Hudson Bay Company, trekked westward taking part in the fur trade, settling mainly in the foothills, and the two other groups of Stoney, one of whom became Paul First Nation chose land just North-West of present day Edmonton, AB