the narrator's mother (Tale 71)

Family: Arikara · Role: mother · First appears: Tale 71 · The Medicine Bear Shield · Part 1

In The Medicine Bear Shield, the narrator's mother (Tale 71) went to the lodge of the man who had taken the shield and recovered its frame for the narrator (Tale 71). The narrator said, “The frame of the shield was given up by the man to me.”

Relationship record

Life events

• The narrator's mother recovered the shield frame from the man who had taken it.(Tale 71 · The Medicine Bear Shield · Part 1)
  • With: the narrator (Tale 71)
  • “The frame of the shield was given up by the man to me.”

Tale 71 · The Medicine Bear Shield · Part 1

• child: the narrator (Tale 71) “I told them who had it, and my mother went to the lodge of the man, who said, ‘Yes, I took it, but I threw the cover away, for I intended to make a new cover for it.’”

Tale 71 · The Medicine Bear Shield · Part 2

• child: the narrator (Tale 71) “I want you, medicine-men, to paint him and place this lariat rope upon the pole, and cut upon his back so that he will swing. Warriors, in cutting upon his back, tell of your great deeds, so that my grandson will overtake your great deeds in his life and become a great man. I have many ponies to give you, and his mother and relatives will give you presents.”

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