Iosco

Also known as: Ioscoda · Role: boy about ten years of age · First appears: Iosco; or, the Prairie Boys' Visit to the Sun and Moon · Part 1

In Iosco; or, the Prairie Boys' Visit to the Sun and Moon · Part 1, Ioscoda, a boy about ten, persuaded the young men to let him join their journey by threatening to tell the parents of Ioscoda their plan. That morning, he obtained new leather leggings from his parents by appealing to their pride and envy, and set out with the eldest and the others toward the sun. The party turned south to camp by the indicated river, then embarked on a boat loaded with wood.

In Iosco; or, the Prairie Boys' Visit to the Sun and Moon · Part 2, Ioscoda dreamed that his spirit would open his ears so he could understand people with hats. The great chief gave the travellers valuable presents and provisions, offered to send them home, and then promised supplies when they refused. The rather elderly man predicted their journey would succeed, though not all would complete it, and instructed them how to pass beneath the descending sky to the plain beyond.