Oral tradition among tribal peoples has allowed teachings to be passed on from generation to generation. Elder Larry Grant of the Musqueam people tells his story about the oral history of great earthquakes on the Westcoast of British Columbia: how he remembers as a child being told by his elders about a powerful earthquake that occurred several generations ago. This “story” was “verified” by recent geological evidence of a massive tsunami that occurred on the coast hundreds of years ago.
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