Katepwewi

Katepwewi is the Cree name associated with the Qu'Appelle River, which winds through a broad valley in the southern prairie. Lakes interrupt its course, and the valley has long served as a corridor for travel and exchange. Its Cree name is linked to a story of a voice calling along the river; French speakers later rendered the name as Qu'Appelle, “who calls?” Indigenous people hunted in the valley long before the arrival of fur traders.