The nearly 4 decades of gathering stories from American Indians in the western hemisphere by now retired Montana University professor Dr. Ardy Sixkiller Clarke may have yielded a case that some people may find worthwhile following up on.
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Taking the many clues above, I found that this was the Garrison Dam project in North Dakota, initiated in 1947.
Cosmic Pluralism Studies 