the boy's mother (Tale 27)

Family: Arikara · Role: mother · First appears: Tale 27 · The Boy and the Elk

Life events

After lying dead for several days, the young man returned to his mother's tipi alive.(Tale 27 · The Boy and the Elk)
- With: the young man (Tale 27)
- “The boy lay there for several days, but one night he came to the tipi of his mother. He woke her up and told her that he had returned.”
The young man and his relatives left the village and entered the river, where they turned into water animals.(Tale 27 · The Boy and the Elk)
- With: the young man (Tale 27)
- “They went into the water, and as they got into the water they began to disappear. They all turned into some kind of animal that lived in the water.”

child: the young man (Tale 27) (The narrator identifies him as her son.) “But when she made a fire she saw her son sitting there.”

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