| Official Name: | Cut Knife |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Saskatchewan |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Cut Knife in Saskatchewan |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
| Subdivision Type2: | Rural municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | Cut Knife |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Gwenn Kaye |
| Leader Title1: | Administrator |
| Leader Name1: | Jennifer King |
| Established Title2: | Post Office established: |
| Established Date2: | 1905-11-01 |
| Area Total Km2: | 1.99 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 573 |
| Population Density Km2: | 259.3 |
| Timezone: | Central Standard Time |
| Utc Offset: | −6 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −5 |
| Coordinates: | 52.7456°N -109.0206°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | S0M 0N0 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Website: | Official website |
| Footnotes: | [2] [3] |
Cut Knife is a town located in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan on Highway 40, northwest of Saskatoon and 55 km (34 miles) west of North Battleford. The population of Cut Knife in 2011 was 517.
Nearby are Poundmaker Cree Nation and Little Pine First Nation to the north in Paynton, Sweetgrass First Nation to the east, and Hillsvale Hutterite Colony to the north-west of the town.[4]
Cut Knife is named after Cut Knife Hill (now called Chief Poundmaker Hill) situated on the Poundmaker reserve. The hill was named after a Sarcee chief killed nearby by the Cree in the 1840s.[4]
The town is close to the site of the Battle of Cut Knife which occurred during the North-West Rebellion of 1885.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cut Knife had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 1.88km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[5]
At Cut Knife is the "World's Largest Tomahawk", the Poundmaker Historical Centre and the Big Bear monument. There is also now, correctly located, a cairn erected by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada upon Cut Knife Hill overlooking the Poundmaker Battle site and Battle River valley.[6] [7] [8]
The tomahawk is located in the Tomahawk Park next to the Clayton McLain Memorial Museum. It was built in 1971 as a symbol of unity and friendship with the First Nations of the area.[4] [6] It was designed in 1970 by UMA Engineering of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.