BTW, brule ("burnt") is the French translation of the Lakhotan "Sichanghu" which translates as "burnt thigh"
Imagine a hot, windy, dry great plains day. A dry lightening strike starts several hundred thousand acres of grasslands on fire. The grass is no higher than a man's waist as it burns, whipped into a massive firestorm by the wind.
The people ran toward what water they could find, such as the Missouri. Many died, and many who made it were badly burnt on their legs.
It must have been a fire epics are made from, for a people to choose the event for their name.
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