the mother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)

Family: Pawnee · Role: mother · First appears: Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1

At the village, Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa’s mother and father mourned his death, saying, “Now we have no one to help us hoe. We are old, and he helped us; but now he is gone.” After two months, she had cried so much that she became blind. One night at midnight, Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa returned to the lodge and told her, “Mother, I am here,” then gave her fresh buffalo meat.

After a long time, Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa returned and told her there was water in a wooden bowl beside the daughter (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)’s bed. After he had gone, his mother washed her eyes in the water and regained her sight.

Relationship record

Life events

• Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa's parents mourned his death.(Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · 📍 the village)
  • With: the father (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
  • “his father and mother mourned, and said, ‘Now we have no one to help us hoe. We are old, and he helped us; but now he is gone.’”
• Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa's mother became blind from crying for him.(Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1)
  • “His mother had cried so much for Pa-hu-ka´-tawa, that she had become blind.”
• Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa returned and revealed himself to his mother as alive.(Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · 📍 the lodge)
  • With: Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa
  • “He said to her, ‘Mother, I am here,’ and she reached out and felt him.”
• Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa gave his mother fresh buffalo meat.(Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · 📍 the lodge)
  • With: Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa
  • “He gave her a piece of meat--a piece of fresh buffalo meat--though they had had no fresh meat in the village for six months.”
• Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa returned and told his mother how to restore her sight.(Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1)
  • With: Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa
  • “Now, my mother, there is standing by the side of your daughter's bed, water in a wooden bowl.”
• Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa's mother washed her eyes in the water beside her daughter's bed and regained her sight.(Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1)
  • With: the daughter (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
  • “when she took her face out of the water, and opened her eyes again, she could see.”

Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1

• child: Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa “When they came into the village, the relations of this man felt very badly because he was killed. It was coming on toward the time when they begin to clear up their patches, to plant the corn, and to hoe, and his father and mother mourned, and said, ‘Now we have no one to help us hoe. We are old, and he helped us; but now he is gone.’”
• child: the daughter (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa) “Now, my mother, there is standing by the side of your daughter's bed, water in a wooden bowl.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales. Made with Rho MD.