Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa

Also known as: Pa-hu-ka´-tawa · Family: Pawnee · Role: son · First appears: Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1

Near sundown, Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa was killed by the Sioux. His father and mother mourned the loss of their son and the help he had given them. At midnight, he returned to the lodge and revealed himself to his mother as alive, bringing her fresh buffalo meat. After a long time, he visited her again and told her how to restore her sight.

He later went to see his oldest brother and told him, “I am a spirit.” The night after a battle, he told the brother (Pa-Hu-Ka-Tawa) that the Nahu´rac had taken pity on him after he was killed. In Part 3, he warned his brother that a Sioux war party would come, and the Skidi defeated the attackers as he had foretold. He said, “There is no one above me but Ti-ra´-wa. He is the only one I am under.” Afterward, he went away to the Rees and never returned to visit his people.

Relationship record

Life events

• Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa was killed by the Sioux.(Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1)
  • “The Sioux followed him and found him, and chased him about, and shot at him all day, until near sundown, when they killed him.”
• Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa returned and revealed himself to his mother as alive.(Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · 📍 the lodge)
  • With: the mother (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: the mother (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: the mother (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 visited his oldest brother and told him he was a spirit.(Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1)
  • With: the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
  • “I want to talk to you, and tell you my thoughts and all my troubles. I am a spirit.”
• Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa revealed to his brother that he had returned to life as a spirit.(Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 2 · 📍 the lodge)
  • With: the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
  • “Then he told the story of his being killed. He said, “That time after I got killed, all kinds of Nahu´rac took pity on me.”
• The warriors defeated the attacking Sioux after Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa's warning came true.(Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 2)
  • With: the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
  • “Then they made the charge, and each one of those who had asked a favor received it. In every case what Pa-hu-ka´-tawa had promised came true.”
• Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa warned his brother that the Sioux would attack and told him to prepare the people.(Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 3 · 📍 Skidi village)
  • With: the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
  • “Two days before they came, Pa-hu-ka´-tawa came down to his brother and warned him, saying, “A big war party of Sioux will be here day after to-morrow to fight with you.”
• The Skidi defeated the Sioux after rain disabled the attackers’ bows.(Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 3)
  • With: the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
  • “The Skidi overcame the Sioux and drove them, and the Sioux ran far.”
• Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa left for the Rees and never returned to visit his people.(Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 3 · 📍 the Rees)
  • With: the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
  • “So Pa-hu-ka´-tawa went away to the Rees, and the people knew him no more; after that he never came down to see them.”

Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1

• parent: the father (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.’”
• parent: the mother (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.’”
• siblings with the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa) “After a long time Pa-hu-ka´-tawa came down again to see his mother. He said to her, ‘Mother, I am going up to see my oldest brother.’”

Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 2

• siblings with the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa) (The text identifies the brother as Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa's brother.) “He went and stood before his brother, and said to him, “I am in everything; in the grass, the water, the trees.”
• lord: Ti-ra´-wa “There is no one above me but Ti-ra´-wa. He is the only one I am under. He is the ruler of all.”

Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 3

• siblings with the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa) “Two days before they came, Pa-hu-ka´-tawa came down to his brother and warned him, saying, “A big war party of Sioux will be here day after to-morrow to fight with you.”

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