Wakpa'juk'ana

Wakpa’juk’ana is a Nakoda name for the Milk River, which winds across the northern plains toward the Missouri. Upstream, the river has carved a valley through the sandstone of Áísínai’pi, where pillars of rock stand among the coulees. Blackfoot people hold this landscape sacred; their engravings and paintings on the valley walls bear witness to messages from Sacred Beings. Camps and archaeological remains show a long history of human presence beside the Milk.