Medicine Hat, Alberta

Driving through the city of Medicine Hat, I couldn't help but notice that there was an enormous teepee off to my right. Enormous is perhaps an understatement - the Saamis Teepee is 215 feet tall and has a diameter of 160 feet. The DL is parked next to it for comparison. That's one big-ass teepee!

I was also curious how the city got the name of Medicine Hat. Apparently it has something to do with a legend about some Native guy who ran off with some other guy's' wife. After talking to some animals and a merman and committing some human sacrifices, they decided the area looked like a hat worn by a Medicine Man, so they called the area Medicine Hat (they couldn't have just skipped all that other stuff?). Or something like that.