Frenchman_River
Frenchman River
River in Saskatchewan and Montana
The Frenchman River, (Gros Ventre: níhʔɔɔtóóúníícááh, lit. 'white person river'[1]), also known locally as the Whitemud River, is a river in Saskatchewan, Canada and Montana, United States.[2] It is a tributary of the Milk River, itself a tributary of the Missouri and in turn a part of the Mississippi River watershed that flows to the Gulf of Mexico.[2]
The river is approximately 341 kilometers (212 mi) long.[2]
The name origin is uncertain, although both Métis and francophone settlers inhabited its banks at the turn of the 20th century. The Frenchman Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, was named for the river.