Village-Boy

Role: warrior · First appears: Tale 32 · The Village-Boy and the Wolf Power

At the graveyard, the big white timber Wolf promised to care for Village-Boy and lead him to the enemy’s camp; the Wolf had also taught him secret powers. After Village-Boy transformed into a Wolf at a ravine, his friend identified him to the other warriors. The next day, Village-Boy led the war-party to the enemy’s village, killed an enemy, and took his scalp. A few days afterward, the party credited him with the killing and captured ponies, ending the ridicule of his four sisters’ scalp-dance.

At the village, Village-Boy married and became one of its great men. One day, at the Village-of-the-Dumb-People, he killed the medicine-man and carried away his head.

Relationship record

Life events

The Wolf promised to take care of Village-Boy and lead him to the enemy’s camp.(Tale 32 · The Village-Boy and the Wolf Power · 📍 the graveyard)
- With: the big white timber Wolf (Tale 32)
- “The Wolf told the boy not to cry, for he would take care of him.”
Village-Boy transformed himself into a Wolf using the secret powers he had learned.(Tale 32 · The Village-Boy and the Wolf Power)
- “when he had come to a ravine he rolled himself upon the ground, and when he got up he was a Wolf.”
Village-Boy's friend identified him to the other warriors.(Tale 32 · The Village-Boy and the Wolf Power)
- With: Village-Boy's friend (Tale 32)
- “Village-Boy’s friend told the other warriors that he was Village-Boy.”
Village-Boy led the warriors to the enemy’s village, killed an enemy, and took his scalp.(Tale 32 · The Village-Boy and the Wolf Power · 📍 the enemy’s village)
- “The war-party then attacked the enemy’s village. Village-Boy was in the lead. He killed one enemy and took his scalp.”
The war-party publicly credited Village-Boy with the killing and captured ponies, ending the ridicule of his sisters’ dancing.(Tale 32 · The Village-Boy and the Wolf Power)
- “It was announced by the leader of the war-party that Village-Boy had done all the killing, and capturing of the ponies.”
Village-Boy married and became one of the village’s great men.(Tale 32 · The Village-Boy and the Wolf Power · 📍 the village)
- “He married and became one of the great men of the village.”
Village-Boy killed the medicine-man and carried away his head.(Tale 32 · The Village-Boy and the Wolf Power · 📍 the Village-of-the-Dumb-People)
- “He killed their medicine-man, cut his throat, and carried the head away.”
The Wolf taught Village-Boy the secret powers of the Wolf.(Tale 32 · The Village-Boy and the Wolf Power)
- With: the big white timber Wolf (Tale 32)
- “the Wolf had been coming to visit the young man, and had taught the young man the secret powers of the Wolf.”

Tale 32 · The Village-Boy and the Wolf Power

parent: Village-Boy's father (Tale 32) “The young man told his father that he was going up on a high mound where there was a graveyard.”
siblings with Village-Boy's sister (Tale 32, catalog A) “The boy told him that he was a poor boy; that he had never been on the war-path, nor taken a scalp; that he had four sisters who danced in the scalp-dance and were ridiculed for dancing when their brother had never been on the war-path.”
siblings with Village-Boy's sister (Tale 32, catalog B) “The boy told him that he was a poor boy; that he had never been on the war-path, nor taken a scalp; that he had four sisters who danced in the scalp-dance and were ridiculed for dancing when their brother had never been on the war-path.”
siblings with Village-Boy's sister (Tale 32, catalog C) “The boy told him that he was a poor boy; that he had never been on the war-path, nor taken a scalp; that he had four sisters who danced in the scalp-dance and were ridiculed for dancing when their brother had never been on the war-path.”
siblings with Village-Boy's sister (Tale 32, catalog D) “The boy told him that he was a poor boy; that he had never been on the war-path, nor taken a scalp; that he had four sisters who danced in the scalp-dance and were ridiculed for dancing when their brother had never been on the war-path.”
friends with Village-Boy's friend (Tale 32) “His friend said, ‘There is my friend, Village-Boy.’”
married with Village-Boy's wife (Tale 32) “He married and became one of the great men of the village.”
mentor: the big white timber Wolf (Tale 32) “So the young man started out on the journey; but before this happened the Wolf had been coming to visit the young man, and had taught the young man the secret powers of the Wolf.”

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