Onnikisisaahtaayi

Onnikisisaahtaayi is a Blackfoot name for the Milk River, a waterway that rises near the Rocky Mountains and loops through the northern plains before joining the Missouri. Its banks and valley formed part of the seasonal landscape of the Blackfoot peoples, with camps, ceremonial sites and places where medicinal plants grew. The river takes its English name from the pale appearance of its water, observed by the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1805.