the Pawnee man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)

Family: Pawnee · Role: father · First appears: O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1

A long time ago, during the summer hunt, O´Re-Ka-Rahr quarrelled with his wife, who left him with their infant son. He left the tribe with the boy and wandered alone, raising him until he grew strong and learned to walk and talk. After two days and nights away, he found a Comanche camp and recognized a captive woman as Pawnee; there, he killed the Comanche man and took his scalp.

He escaped with the two women and the camp’s horses. When they reached the boy, the women took him in their arms and “took him as their own.” One night, O´Re-Ka-Rahr and the boy returned to the Pawnee tribe with the women, and he gave his relations many horses.

Relationship record

Life events

• The wife left the Pawnee man and their infant son after a quarrel.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1)
  • With: the wife (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
  • “At length the wife became very angry, and threw the baby to the man, saying, ‘You take that baby. It belongs to you, for it is a man child. I am not going to nurse it for you any longer.’ Then she went away.”
• The Pawnee man left the tribe with his son and wandered off alone.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1)
  • With: the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
  • “So he was very unhappy, and determined to leave the tribe and wander off alone, far from his people. He did so.”
• The Pawnee man raised his son alone until the boy grew strong and learned to walk and talk.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1)
  • With: the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
  • “The child began to improve, and to get a little stronger. In this way he supported it for quite a long time, and it did pretty well, and at last it got used to this food, and became strong and well.”
• The Pawnee man discovered a Comanche camp and recognized one captive woman as Pawnee.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1)
  • With: the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
  • “He kept looking at her, and at last he remembered who she was, and that she had been captured long ago from the Pawnees. Her people were still living. The man was a Comanche.”
• The Pawnee man and the first captive woman recognized each other as members of the Pawnee tribe.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1)
  • With: the first captive woman (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
  • “She answered him, ‘Yes, I belong to your tribe.’ Then she said in a very low voice that shook, for she was afraid, ‘Do you belong to my tribe?’ The man said, ‘Yes.’”
• The Pawnee man killed the Comanche man with an arrow and took his scalp.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1)
  • With: the Comanche man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
  • “He made a little bit of an opening by the door, just big enough to let an arrow pass through, and when the time came he let it go. U´-ra-rîsh! the arrow flew straight, and pierced the Comanche through the heart. So he died, and the Pawnee counted coup on him and took his scalp.”
• The two captive women escaped with the Pawnee man, taking the horses from the camp.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1)
  • With: the first captive woman (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the second captive woman (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
  • “They took down the lodge, and packed everything on the horses, and drove off the herd, leaving the dead body of the enemy in the camp.”
• The two women reached the boy and took him as their own.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1)
  • With: the first captive woman (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the second captive woman (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
  • “When they came to the boy, they took him in their arms and petted him, and took him as their own.”
• The lost father and child returned to the Pawnee tribe.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 2 · 📍 the Pawnee tribe)
  • With: the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
  • “They found out that the man and child, who were lost, had returned, and with them two women, captured long ago by the Comanches.”
• The father gave his relations many horses.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 2 · 📍 the Pawnee tribe)
  • “Then the man gave his relations many horses.”

O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1

• married with the wife (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) “A long time ago, as the tribe were on their summer hunt, a man and his wife got to quarreling.”
• child: the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) “They had a child, a boy about ten months old.”
• enemies with the Comanche man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) “Now the father was no longer sad. He had recovered two captured women, had killed his enemy, and had taken a lot of horses.”

O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 2

• child: the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) “After he had grown up, he told his father that ever since he could remember anything, a buck deer had talked to him, and taken care of him; that it had saved them, and brought them good fortune.”

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