The Old Woman's Buffalo Jump is south of High River, Alberta along what historically has been called Squaw Coulee.

Why the coulee was called that goes back to an old Indian story. It goes back to the Old Man, or Napi Fidler described. The Old Man, of course, is a mythical being common to all prairie Indians, who under one name or another, created the earth, its rivers, valleys and Indians. Considered rather eccentric, when he created mankind he set the men and women apart. Here he placed the women while the men he decreed would dwell in Boneyard Coulee, a few miles to the south.

One day one of the women was wandering afar while hunting and met a man who had strayed from his coulee. They stopped to smoke and talk and they soon discovered Napi's trick of separating the men from the women. J. G. MacGregor in his book Peter Fidler Canada's Forgotten Surveyor ads "That night the men all moved over to Squaw Coulee, and," said the old Piegan, with wrinkles of merriment about his eyes, "that was the Beginning of Things."

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