Sunwapta

Sunwapta is a Stoney Indian word meaning "turbulent river" or "radiating waves" (as in ripples, small waves in a circular shape created after dropping an object in water).

A number of geographic features in Jasper National Park of Canada have been named after this name:

Additionally, in 1934, Dr. George Richard Agar Rice included the word in his new Edmonton, Alberta based radio station company: Sunwapta Broadcasting.


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