Second-hand story about a Stony Indian woman's encounter. witnessed in Alberta, Canada

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In 1973 I was employed as a physical therapy intern for Native People in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I had the pleasure of meeting a lady who would help me understand the traditional belief systems of the Stony (Assiniboine in west central Alberta) People. Although the Stony share much in common with Siouxan groups, they are in many ways Algonkian and Cree words like "napeo" (people) are very common. While my friend acknowleded the neighbouring Cree belief in wendigo, she said that in Stony the name was "m-s-napeo", meaning simply "big people". She added that when she was a child of about ten, around 1944, she accompanied her aunt. uncle and cousins in a horse drawn wagon west of Rocky Mountain House on a dirt road (now the David Thompson Highway between Red Deer and the Columbia Icefields). On a sunny summer day they were rounding a corner in the road on the north shore of Abraham Lake near Windy Point when they abruptly stopped, causing all the children in the back to stand up. Sh...