Red-Bear

Role: chief · First appears: Tale 17 · How Burnt-Hands Became a Chief · Part 2

Life events

• Red-Bear killed Burnt-Hands after finding him by an elk, then left him in an air-hole.(Tale 17 · How Burnt-Hands Became a Chief · Part 1)
  • With: Burnt-Hands’ grandmother
  • “Pulling his arrows out of his quiver, he said, ‘My father will be glad to have you for his meal,’ and he shot two arrows through the boy. He dragged him out on the ice to a large air-hole and said, as he dropped him, ‘Father, I have done as you bid me.’”
• Burnt-Hands struck Red-Bear with his war-club and dragged him to the air-hole.(Tale 17 · How Burnt-Hands Became a Chief · Part 2)
  • With: Burnt-Hands (Tale 17)
  • “As Red-Bear leaned over to take the teeth Burnt-Hands took his war-club and struck him on the head. He took him by the feet and dragged him to the air-hole.”

Tale 17 · How Burnt-Hands Became a Chief · Part 2

• siblings with Red-Bear’s brother “She caught Red-Bear’s brother and four or five others of his near relatives.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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