The first time I heard this story was in about 1982.
It was told by a native child welfare worker-Moses Tom.
He used the story to indicate the need to develop programs to prevent native
children from being taken into child welfare custosdy.
I have no idea where he heard this story.
In his version what they discovered was that the bridge up rive was in bad
repair and so they fixed the bridge.
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