We gathered up the kids and sat up on the hill. We had no time to get our chickens and no time to get our horses out of the corral. The water came in and smacked against the corral and broke the horses' legs. The drowned, and the chickens drowned. We sat on the hill and we cried. These are the stories we tell about the river, " said [Ladona] Brave Bull Allard. The granddaughter of Chief Brave Bull, she told her story at a Missouri River symposium in Bismark, North Dakota, in the fall of 2003.Before The Flood, her Standing Rock Sioux Tribe lived in a Garden of Eden, where nature provided all their needs. "In the summer, we would plant huge gardens because the land was fertile, " she recalled. We had all our potatoes and squash. We canned all the berries that grew along the river. Now we don't have the plants and the medicine they used to make. Bill Lambrecht
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The Great Flood is an event in the Hebrew Bible narrative recorded at Genesis chapters 1-6 and 2 Peter 3:5-7. Noah, his three sons and their wives entered the ark (Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית‎‎, bereshit) in the biblical narrative. The flood was God's punishment for man's wickedness. The story of Noah's ark in the Bible is read during the Jewish holiday of Purim in both Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions. The story is known as in Nuzi tablets from Evil times.

Source: Big Muddy Blues: True Tales And Twisted Politics Along Lewis And Clarks Missouri River

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