The University of Oklahoma campus is protected from tornadoes by an old Indian legend, according to an article from The Oklahoman on June 15, 1913.

The headline boasts: “UNIVERSITY BUILT ON HOLY GROUND Indians Believed Present Site of School Protected from Storms.”

“From the favorite hunting grounds of blanketed Indians to a squatter's claim, thence to the site of one of the first universities in the entire southwest, and all in twenty-four years, sounds more like fable than history, but nevertheless it is true of the present site of the University of Oklahoma.”

“Thirty years ago there were not a dozen families with the radius of twenty-five miles of this particular ground. It was merely a part of the great prairies grazed over by thousands of head of cattle, and hunted over by Indians of a dozen tribes.”