the infant (Chapter 041)

Family: Indian village · Role: younger son · First appears: Infant Nursed By Bears

Born in the same hour his mother died after the hunter forced her to eat bear meat, the infant was buried in a hollow tree by the hunter. A friendly bear nourished and cared for him there; when he left the tree, he joined his father and older brother, the hunter's older son, and was “happy and contented to remain with his father and brother.”

Finally, the infant and his brother told their father they were going to the far west to kill the great beasts harming the human race.

Relationship record

Life events

• The hunter's wife gave birth to the infant and died after the hunter forced her to eat bear meat.(Infant Nursed By Bears)
  • With: the hunter's wife (Chapter 041)
  • “whom he forced to eat of the meat until she died, with her little infant to which she had given birth the same hour.”
• The hunter buried his wife and abandoned the infant in a hollow tree.(Infant Nursed By Bears)
  • With: the hunter (Chapter 041)
  • “Then the hunter buried his wife and threw the infant into the hollow tree.”
• The friendly bear nourished and cared for the infant in the tree.(Infant Nursed By Bears)
  • With: the friendly bear (Chapter 041)
  • “the hunter discovered he had been nourished and cared for by a friendly bear.”
• The infant left the tree and joined the hunter and his older son.(Infant Nursed By Bears)
  • With: the hunter (Chapter 041) the hunter's older son (Chapter 041)
  • “the child was happy and contented to remain with his father and brother.”
• The two children set out for the far west to kill the great beasts.(Infant Nursed By Bears · 📍 the far west)
  • With: the hunter's older son (Chapter 041) the hunter (Chapter 041)
  • “Finally, they told their father they were going to the far west to kill the great beasts which were harming the human race.”

Infant Nursed By Bears

• parent: the hunter's wife (Chapter 041) “Then the hunter buried his wife and threw the infant into the hollow tree.”
• parent: the hunter (Chapter 041) “A man and his wife and child went off hunting from an Indian village and encamped a long way from home.”
• siblings with the hunter's older son (Chapter 041) “the child was happy and contented to remain with his father and brother.”
• foster-parent: the friendly bear (Chapter 041) “where the hunter discovered he had been nourished and cared for by a friendly bear.”

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Extracted from the original text of Myths of the Iroquois. Made with Rho MD.