Nati'nesthani's niece

Role: niece · First appears: Nati'nesthani · Part 1

In Nati'nesthani · Part 1, Nati'nesthani’s niece lived with her grandmother in a lodge apart from his parents and brother. When the necklace was brought, she warned him that his brother had threatened to kill him if he lost it, and that the family was tired of him. The next morning, she prepared wood-rats and seeds for his journey.

In Nati'nesthani · Part 2, she stole the baskets and sacred buckskins he needed. When Hastséyalti and Hastséhogan summoned him, she agreed to let him take her pet turkey, which he said would keep him company and remind him of home.

Relationship record

Life events

• His niece told Nati'nesthani that his brother had threatened to kill him if he lost the necklace.(Nati'nesthani · Part 1)
  • With: Nati'nesthani
  • “‘It is put here for safe-keeping,’ replied his niece. ‘Your brother values it and has asked us to take care of it. If you lose it in gambling, he has threatened to kill you. I have heard the counsels of the family about you. They are tired of you. If you lose this necklace at play, it is the last thing you will ever lose.’”
• His niece prepared food and provisions for Nati'nesthani's journey.(Nati'nesthani · Part 2)
  • “The next morning his niece cooked several wood-rats and ground for him a good quantity--as much as could be held in two hands--of the seeds of tlo`tsózi (Sporobolus cryptandrus).”
• His niece stole the baskets and sacred buckskins Nati'nesthani requested.(Nati'nesthani · Part 2)
  • With: Nati'nesthani
  • “On the evening of the third day, after they had washed themselves with the yucca suds, he told her about the baskets and the sacred buckskins which he needed. She went to the neighboring lodge and stole these articles, wrapping the baskets up in the buckskins.”
• Hastséyalti and Hastséhogan summoned Nati'nesthani, and his niece gave him her turkey to take along.(Nati'nesthani · Part 2)
  • With: Hastséyalti Hastséhogan Nati'nesthani Nati'nesthani's grandmother
  • “The niece had a pet turkey that roosted on a tree near the lodge, Hastséyalti made signs to the Navaho to take the turkey along. The Navaho said: ‘My niece, the gods bid me take your turkey, and I would gladly do it, for I am going among strange people, where I shall be lonely. I love the bird; he would be company to me and remind me of my home. Yet I shall not take him against your will.’ ‘Then you may have my turkey pet,’ replied the niece.”

Nati'nesthani · Part 1

• elder kin: Nati'nesthani “His parents and brother lived in one lodge; his grandmother and niece lived in another, a little distance from the first.”
• benefactor: Nati'nesthani “Who will hunt wood-rats for my niece when I am gone?”

Nati'nesthani · Part 2

• elder kin: Nati'nesthani “The next morning his niece cooked several wood-rats and ground for him a good quantity--as much as could be held in two hands--of the seeds of tlo`tsózi (Sporobolus cryptandrus).”

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Extracted from the original text of Navaho Legends. Made with Rho MD.