Ijahtibe Wapta

Ijahtibe Wapta is a Stoney Nakoda name for the Bow River, whose waters descend from the Rocky Mountains onto the southern Alberta plains. Its name is associated with materials used to make bows, as is the Blackfoot name Makhabn. The river runs east through a broad valley and joins the Oldman River to form the South Saskatchewan. Long before colonial settlement, the Bow valley was part of a network of routes used by Indigenous peoples between the mountains and the prairie.

The later city of Calgary lies here.