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  • Chief's headstone destroyed to disprove legend

    06/30/2006 4:46:13 PM PDT · by robowombat · 4 replies · 938+ views
    Grand Forks ND News ^ | June 16 , 2006
    Chief's headstone destroyed to disprove legend June 16 LITTLE FALLS, Minn. - There's a legend here that if anyone disturbs the nearly 160-year-old grave of an Ojibwe chief, Mother Nature will bring down a natural disaster on the town. Now the headstone of Chief Hole-in-the-Day I has been destroyed, but this central Minnesota town is still standing. The law, however, had landed on three men in their 20s who allegedly desecrated the burial site. "These knuckleheads were trying to disprove that theory and see if Little Falls would be destroyed by a tornado if they destroyed his grave," Morrison County...