the elder brother (The Snake Brother)

Family: Pawnee · Role: elder brother · First appears: The Snake Brother · Part 1

In Part 1, the elder brother was traveling through thick woods with his younger brother when they became lost. After eating squirrel and marrow together, he began changing into a rattlesnake; his younger brother carried him to a hole after he had fully changed. He told his brother to tell their father and mother what had happened, and to bring a large party there if he went on the warpath.

In Part 2, the younger brother left a woman and two animals for the snake to keep, saying, “They are yours.”

Relationship record

Life events

• The elder brother began changing into a rattlesnake after eating squirrel and marrow together.(The Snake Brother · Part 1)
  • With: the younger brother (The Snake Brother)
  • “About the middle of the night, the elder brother felt a noise in his feet, and he sat up and felt of his legs and feet, and he found that his feet were stuck together, and were beginning to get round, like a snake, and had a rattle on the end of them, and that his legs were round and like the tail of a great big rattlesnake.”
• The elder brother completely changed into a snake, and the younger brother carried him to a hole.(The Snake Brother · Part 1)
  • With: the younger brother (The Snake Brother)
  • “The young man took the snake in his arms, and carried him over to the hole, and put him on the ground by it.”
• The boy left the woman and two animals for the snake to keep.(The Snake Brother · Part 2)
  • With: the younger brother (The Snake Brother) the woman (The Snake Brother)
  • “Now, brother, I am going away, and I give you these two animals and this woman to keep. They are yours.”

The Snake Brother · Part 1

• siblings with the younger brother (The Snake Brother) “In this party were two brothers, poor boys, and one day as they were traveling along, apart from the others, in a piece of woods where it was very thick, they got lost.”
• parent: the father (The Snake Brother) “When you go back home, you must tell our father and mother how it was, and whenever you want to go on the warpath, take a big party and come down this way, and come right here, to this very place, and you will see me, for I shall be here.”
• parent: the mother (The Snake Brother) “When you go back home, you must tell our father and mother how it was, and whenever you want to go on the warpath, take a big party and come down this way, and come right here, to this very place, and you will see me, for I shall be here.”

The Snake Brother · Part 2

• siblings with the younger brother (The Snake Brother) “Then he took the woman and went down to where the horses were, and they got on two of them, and rode back to where his brother, the snake, lived, driving the horses before them.”

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