This area is sacred to the Blackfeet (Southern Piegan) people.

Running Eagle Fall bears the name of a legendary historic (by which I mean to communicate that she was a real historical person, not a person of myth) Blackfeet woman. Running Eagle was a rare female warrior chief who used this site for her vision quests.

The waterfall, located in the Two Medicine area of Glacier National Park, is a "trick" fall. In the spring, during high runoff, the water falls over the upper lip and the fall looks like a fairly typical waterfall. However, as the snowmelt slows with summer, the stream stops flowing over the upper lip of the fall and instead only pours out from the hole in the rock wall.