the Ogopogo before it became a tourist mascot — 1914 account is genuinely unsettling

Everyone knows Ogopogo as the Loch Ness knockoff in Okanagan Lake, BC. What most people don't look up is the pre-colonization history — the Syilx Okanagan people called it n'ha-a-itk and considered it dangerous. Not mysterious-and-magical dangerous. Actually dangerous. They would make offerings befo……