Pawnee — Minor Figures

22 figures from Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

the chief priest (Lone Chief)

chief priest · first appears Lone Chief · Part 1

Lone Chief · Part 1 · with Lone Chief “Running Chief did this, giving one horse to the chief priest.”

the mother (Lone Chief)

mother · first appears Lone Chief · Part 1

Lone Chief · Part 1 · child: Lone Chief “Until he was old enough to go to war, his mother had supported him by farming--raising corn, beans and pumpkins.”

the sister (Lone Chief)

sister · first appears Lone Chief · Part 1

Lone Chief · Part 1 · siblings with Lone Chief “She was the only sister he had, and he had loved her.”
Lone Chief · Part 1 · married with the husband (Lone Chief sister) “He remembered how his sister had been killed when he was a boy only ten years old, and how he had mourned for her, when her husband, who was jealous of her, had shot her through the body with an arrow and killed her.”

the father (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)

father · first appears Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1

Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · child: Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa “When they came into the village, the relations of this man felt very badly because he was killed. It was coming on toward the time when they begin to clear up their patches, to plant the corn, and to hoe, and his father and mother mourned, and said, ‘Now we have no one to help us hoe. We are old, and he helped us; but now he is gone.’”

the mother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)

mother · first appears Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1

Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · child: Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa “When they came into the village, the relations of this man felt very badly because he was killed. It was coming on toward the time when they begin to clear up their patches, to plant the corn, and to hoe, and his father and mother mourned, and said, ‘Now we have no one to help us hoe. We are old, and he helped us; but now he is gone.’”
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · child: the daughter (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa) “Now, my mother, there is standing by the side of your daughter's bed, water in a wooden bowl.”

the old woman (The Dun Horse)

grandmother · first appears The Dun Horse · Part 1

The Dun Horse · Part 1 · younger kin: the boy (The Dun Horse) “Many years ago, there lived in the Pawnee tribe an old woman and her grandson, a boy about sixteen years old.”

the oldest boy (The Dun Horse)

the boy's oldest son · first appears The Dun Horse · Part 2

The Dun Horse · Part 2 · parent: the boy (The Dun Horse) “He had many children by his beautiful wife, and one day when his oldest boy died, he wrapped him in the spotted calf robe and buried him in it.”