Traditions of the Arikara

the young man (Tale 44)

Role: husband · First appears: Tale 44 · The Fight Between the Arikara and the Bears

Life events

  • The Bear lay with the young man's wife while her husband watched.(Tale 44 · The Fight Between the Arikara and the Bears · 📍 the garden)
    • With: the young man's wife (Tale 44) the Bear who met the woman (Tale 44)
    • “After eating, the strange man lay with the woman. The woman’s husband saw all that went on.”
  • The young man shot the Bear as he lay with the woman.(Tale 44 · The Fight Between the Arikara and the Bears · 📍 the garden)
    • With: the Bear who met the woman (Tale 44)
    • “While they were lying together, the woman’s husband came up from behind them, took an arrow, put it in the bow-string and pulled it. He shot the man.”
  • The young man clubbed his wife after she got up.(Tale 44 · The Fight Between the Arikara and the Bears)
  • The wife revealed that the man her husband shot was a Bear who had threatened the Arikara camp.(Tale 44 · The Fight Between the Arikara and the Bears)
    • With: the young man's wife (Tale 44) the Bear who met the woman (Tale 44)
    • “The woman said that he was a Bear, and that was the reason she let him lie with her, for she was afraid of him. She said that the Bear told her that if anybody did anything to him while he was with her he would get all his people together and kill everybody in the Arikara camp.”
  • The Bears killed the young man who had shot the Bear.(Tale 44 · The Fight Between the Arikara and the Bears · 📍 the Arikara camp)
    • With: the Bears (Tale 44)
    • “The Bears did not stop until they had killed the man who had shot the Bear.”

Tale 44 · The Fight Between the Arikara and the Bears

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