As roadside attractions go, the sculptures created by Stewart Steinhauer are surprising and hard to pass by.

"People say, 'I was driving by and I couldn't go further. I had to stop, turn around, I had to go back,'" the 73-year-old said, while standing next to his four granite sculptures, displayed just off a rural highway at the Saddle Lake Cree Nation in northeast Alberta.

Steinhauer, who was born and raised on the reserve about 180 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, established this public exhibition site along the edge of his property at Highway 36 and Range Road 121 to spark interest in Indigenous culture.

He set up the installation several years ago "so I could showcase my large work," he said.

For motorists driving along the two-lane highway through the rolling hills and fields do

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