more than one Red River

Yes, the Red River provides small protection for Okies in place from a possible southern invasion.  Why else line that tentative ribbon of water and sand with obstructions reminiscent of Normandy beaches?  From my days hitch hiking across the US in 1975 and 1976, I remember another river of the same name in Minnesota.  At the time it had swollen to inundate miles of prairie next to the road beds.

Another Red River rises in the McKenzie Mountains and eventually flows past Inuvik, NWT  to the Beaufort Sea and the Arctic Ocean.  We crossed at Tsiigehetchick, NWT. (Silly Chick is my mnemonic aid).

Here we approach the Arctic Red River, or Red River of the North.

Tsiigehtchick is on a hill to the right of the promontory in the foreground.  Raven was snacking on something rabbit like and very dead lying in the road bed.  

Tsiigehtchick's two churches.  One replaces the other, but I can't say which one that is.

You can't run a ferry without a bulldozer. And you can't run a free ferry without government dollars.  The ferry workers greeted us in French.  

Riverside view from the ferry.  Not many roads, so boats are the order of the day for summer transport.