the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)

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

The boy was the infant son of the Pawnee man and the wife. After his parents quarreled, his mother left, and his father took him away from the tribe and raised him alone until he grew strong. When they came upon a Comanche camp, two captive women took the boy as their own; later, he returned to the Pawnee tribe with his father and the women. The next morning, his mother came to see him but was whipped out of the lodge.

After growing up, the child became a wealthy man and established the deer dance to commemorate the O´re-ka-rahr. Later, after the Cheyennes killed and cut him into pieces, he came walking into camp alive that night.

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 Pawnee man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the wife (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 Pawnee man (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 Pawnee man (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 Pawnee man (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 two women reached the boy and took him as their own.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1)
  • With: the Pawnee man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the first captive woman (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the second captive woman (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 Pawnee man (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 child's mother came to see it, but was whipped out of the lodge.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 2 · 📍 the Pawnee tribe)
  • With: the wife (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
  • “The mother of the child came to see it, she was so glad it was alive, but she was whipped out of the lodge.”
• The child grew up to be a wealthy man.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 2)
  • “The child grew to be a man, and was wealthy.”
• He established a deer dance to commemorate the O´re-ka-rahr.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 2)
  • “In order that the O´re-ka-rahr might be remembered, he established a dance, called the deer dance, which has been kept up to this day.”
• After being killed and cut into pieces, the young man returned to camp alive.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 2 · 📍 camp)
  • “The first man killed was this young man. He was very brave, and the Cheyennes cut him up into small pieces, but that night it lightened and thundered and rained, and soon after the storm was over, the young man came walking into camp alive.”

O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1

• parent: the Pawnee man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) “They had a child, a boy about ten months old.”
• parent: the wife (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) “They had a child, a boy about ten months old.”

O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 2

• parent: the wife (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) “The mother of the child came to see it, she was so glad it was alive, but she was whipped out of the lodge.”
• parent: the Pawnee man (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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