Ga'na'

Family: the Seneca · Role: war chief · First appears: Myth 98 · Ga'na's Adventures Among the Cherokee · Part 1

In Myth 98, Ga'na' proposed that the Seneca and Cherokee end their fighting and live in peace. The next day, he learned that the Cherokee had accepted his offer; together, they buried their weapons, with white wampum hanging between them as a sign of peace.

Afterward, the young man claimed Ga'na' as his father and led him home. There, Ga'na' recognized the woman as his wife, who had been carried off by the Cherokee long ago; the young man was their son.

Relationship record

Life events

• Ga'na' proposed that the Seneca and Cherokee stop fighting and live in peace.(Myth 98 · Ga'na's Adventures Among the Cherokee · Part 1)
  • “We must go to the Cherokee and see if we can't agree to be friendly together and live in peace hereafter.”
• Ga'na' learned that the Cherokee had accepted his offer of friendship.(Myth 98 · Ga'na's Adventures Among the Cherokee · Part 1)
  • “We have decided to be friendly and to bury our weapons, these knives and hatchets, so that no man may take them up again.”
• Ga'na' and the Cherokee buried their weapons together as a sign of peace.(Myth 98 · Ga'na's Adventures Among the Cherokee · Part 1)
  • “We are glad you have accepted our offer, and now we have all thrown our weapons in a pile together, and the white wampum hangs between us, and the belt shall be as long as a man and hang down to the ground.”
• The young man claimed Ga'na' as his father and led him home.(Myth 98 · Ga'na's Adventures Among the Cherokee · Part 1)
  • With: the young man (Myth 98)
  • “Then the young man came up to Ga'na' and said, ‘Father, I am glad to see you. Father, we will go home,’ and he led Ga'na' to his own mother's house, the house where Ga'na' had spent the first night.”
• Ga'na' recognized the woman as his wife, who had been carried off by the Cherokee.(Myth 98 · Ga'na's Adventures Among the Cherokee · Part 1)
  • With: the woman (Myth 98)
  • “The young man was really his son, and when Ga'na' came to the house he recognized the woman as his wife who had been carried off long ago by the Cherokee.”

Myth 98 · Ga'na's Adventures Among the Cherokee · Part 1

• child: the young man (Myth 98) “The young man was really his son”
• married with the woman (Myth 98) “he recognized the woman as his wife”

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