Notinito Sipiy

Notinito Sîpiy is the Cree name for the Battle River, meaning “the river where they fight one another.” It rises in central Alberta and flows east to join the North Saskatchewan River. Its name was already recorded by a Hudson’s Bay Company traveller in 1770, before later fighting between Cree and Blackfoot communities in the nineteenth century. The river crosses parkland and prairie, its valley providing a route through the northern Plains.