Sheheke: "Our ship became stranded in a small lake on a mountain top
after a great flood" 200 years ago Lewis and Clarke and Sheheke,the
chief of the Mandan Indians are about to spend new years eve with
president Thomas Jefferson. They have just returned from the coast and
have brought with them the chief of a mysterious tribe of indians that
was one sixth white. Sheheke gives this answer when asked about where
his people had come from and tells them a fantastic story about a
flood cermony where they have an alter they call an ARC(ship) and it
had brought them to this world.
The Mandans came from the source of the Mississippi where the pines
met the oaks. So says Tracy Potter in his 2004 book. Now here is a big
mistake that he and most others might make. They think Itasca Park in
northern minnesota is this source but it is in west central minnesota
near Alexandria. During the times of the norse explorers and the
vikings, the water level was much higher and Itasca was underwater.
Also here in west central minnesota is the high ground(inspriration
peak,1800feet and Bear Knob,1600feet)and the oak forests meet the
pines and here too grow the wild grapes and here is the KRS.
This past summer a gravel quarry was dug into the side of Bear Knob
and here at about 1500 feet I found remains of a small beach where
here the waves of a great flood had reached the highest. After I
turned around I then realized I was standing looking out across what
had been a large inland shallow ocean and I was standing on an ancient
island or the mountain top the Mandans had become stranded on. There
is no other lands above 1500 feet in minnesota other than the notheast
corner of the state near lake superior. Itasca and the mississippi
would have been the deepest part of that inland sea.