Snake Indian River

Infobox_River
river_name = Snake Indian River


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origin = Snake Indian Pass
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mouth = Athabasca River
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The Snake Indian River is a large tributary of the Athabasca River, exiting entirely within Jasper National Park. The Snake Indian forms at Snake Indian Pass, south of Monte Christo Mountain and Snake Indian Mountain, north of Calumet Peak. The river travels in a general northwest direction before turning sharply south. The river plummets over the massive Snake Indian Falls before joining the Athabasca River downstream of Jasper Lake, near the east gate of Jasper National Park. [Mussio Ventures (2004). "Central Alberta Backroad Mapbook." Burnaby: Mussio Ventures.]

The Snake Indian River, along with Snake Indian Mountain and Snake Indian Pass, were named after a small tribe of Indians, the "Snakes", which resided around Jasper House in the 1800s. The Snakes were by a band of Assiniboines at a peace feast between the two tribes. [Karamitsanis, Aphrodite (1991). "Place Names of Alberta, Volume 1". Calgary: University of Calgary Press, pg. 228]

Tributaries

*Blue Creek
**Topaz Lake, Cariboo Lake
*Deer Creek
*Willow Creek
*Princess Lake
**Celestine Lake

ee also

*List of Alberta rivers

References