Keoma

Keoma is a Blackfoot name meaning “far away,” associated with the prairie northeast of the Bow River in southern Alberta. The open grassland lies between the Rocky Mountain foothills and the valleys of the rivers flowing east across the plains. Blackfoot peoples travelled through this country following bison and used the rivers and coulees that cut across the prairie. The name preserves a Blackfoot description of place in a landscape long known through travel and seasonal movement.