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“Two hundred years after Euro-Americans "discovered" it, America's river west begins and ends at pollution.”
― Big Muddy Blues: True Tales and Twisted Politics Along Lewis and Clark's Missouri River
― Big Muddy Blues: True Tales and Twisted Politics Along Lewis and Clark's Missouri River
“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.”
― Big Muddy Blues: True Tales and Twisted Politics Along Lewis and Clark's Missouri River
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.”
― Big Muddy Blues: True Tales and Twisted Politics Along Lewis and Clark's Missouri River
