By Jessica Lee  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Canmore’s newest and largest outdoor mural is giving new meaning to three of the town’s most prolific peaks. Beneath the gaze of the Three Sisters, Indigenous artists Kayla Bellerose and Cheyenne (Chey) Suwataga-Mu, are sharing a story that reclaims the mountains and their history for the area’s traditional territory holders- Iyarhe Nakoda First Nation. “This mural project is clarifying the story and the importance behind the mountains for us,” said Suwataga-Mu, of the Nation’s Bearspaw band. “The association of the mountains with nuns just sort of whitewashes everything.” The mountains were originally named the Three Nuns by Albert Rogers in 1883 after a heavy snowstorm veiled the northern faces of each peak. In 1886, George Dawson gave them their present-day name, not a

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