the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)

Family: Pawnee · Role: oldest brother · First appears: Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1

After a long time, Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa visited his oldest brother and told him, “I am a spirit.” When his brother’s lodge was set up outside the camp, Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa came down to see him; after a battle, he told his brother the story of his death and return as a spirit.

Two days before the Sioux attack, Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa warned his brother and told him to prepare the people. The Skidi defeated the Sioux, and the next morning the warriors found that Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa’s promises had come true. Afterward, he went to the Rees and never came down to see his people again.

Relationship record

Life events

• Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa visited his oldest brother and told him he was a spirit.(Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1)
  • With: 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's oldest brother set up his lodge outside the camp.(Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · 📍 outside the camp)
  • “and the first night after the lodge had been set up outside the camp, Pa-hu-ka´-tawa came down,”
• 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

• siblings with 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 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.”

Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 3

• siblings with 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.