White-Bear’s mother (Tale 81)

Family: Arikara · Role: mother · First appears: Tale 81 · How White-Bear Came to Belong to the Bear Society

While pregnant with White-Bear’s father (Tale 81)’s child, White-Bear’s mother was at the medicine-lodge as he wore a bear robe and tried to catch people. After the child was born, she was called to nurse him.

Relationship record

Life events

• White-Bear’s father wore a bear robe and tried to catch people while his wife was pregnant.(Tale 81 · How White-Bear Came to Belong to the Bear Society · 📍 medicine-lodge)
  • With: White-Bear’s father (Tale 81)
  • “I was in the medicine-lodge when my wife was pregnant. I used to put on the bear robe that was wonderful and I used to try to catch people, that I might cut them open, so I could get a piece of liver from them.”

Tale 81 · How White-Bear Came to Belong to the Bear Society

• child: White-Bear (Tale 81 son) “The mother was called and nursed the child.”
• married with White-Bear’s father (Tale 81) “I was in the medicine-lodge when my wife was pregnant.”

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Extracted from the original text of Traditions of the Arikara. Made with Rho MD.