How Burnt Lake Came To Be

Once upon a time there lived two men of different tribes in Oregon. The two men met o a cold rainy day in the fields and one started to yell at the other one about him being in his territory. They started to fight. It became a war. They fought and they fought. Finally an angel sent to spy on them got mad. "Please stop!" It said. One of the men turned to it and said "Why should we? The man intruded our territory. We have a right to fight". " No!! We must carry on with our culture like hunting seals" The angel said. Nobody stopped. The angel got mad and tried to tell the people to stop but they all said the same thing. Either " He attacked him for nothing!" Or "He was in our territory!" Finally the angel got really mad. One night when the men were sleeping in their large houses the angel took the men into a dream together. It showed them a land were the people went into each others territory without fighting. They kept fighting. The next night It took them into a world without war. They kept fighting.  The last night he took them to a world were they fought every day. The men did not look at this as they were supposed to. They thought the angel meant if you don't fight with intruders it would not work out. They kept fighting. Finally the angel got overwhelmed. It had done everything it could have done. It rose above the town and burnt the town down until there was a big hole. Then the angel made it rain for years and years. Finally after many years the rain stopped. The hole was completely filled. It had turned into a lake.


This lake is know called burnt lake.   





















 Thanks to flickriver.com I was able to get this picture of burnt lake.