Okotoks

Okotoks takes its name from a Blackfoot word for rock, referring to the enormous boulder that rests on the prairie near the Sheep River. Known as the Big Rock, it was carried south by ice from the Rocky Mountains and left behind as the glacier melted. Its conspicuous shape made it a landmark for Blackfoot travellers approaching a river crossing. In Blackfoot tradition the split in the rock is connected with a story of Napi, the trickster.