The following is a transcript of a story I told for some 5-8 year olds in East Helena at the very end of 2015.
I’m going to tell you a story about right here. It’s a story from a long time ago, before we had houses around here, before we had roads around here. But there were still a lot of people who lived here. And one day they heard a sound.
Boom boom boom! BOOM!
It was so loud, everybody was so scared. There was an old man who said, “I know what that sound is, that’s the sound of the snow falling off the trees.” Everybody looked at him and said, the snow falling off the trees? It’s spring all the snow is melted, there’s no snow to..”
Boom Boom Boom!
A little old lady said “I know what that is, that’s the sound of buffalo running through the valley, it’s so loud it sounds like thunder.” Everybody looked at her. “The buffalo don’t come in the springtime, everybody knows they run in the fall…”
Boom Boom Boom!
All along standing in the back there was a little girl and she was looking to the east, beyond the mountains to the horizon.