the younger brother (The Snake Brother)

Family: Pawnee · Role: younger brother · First appears: The Snake Brother · Part 1

As a boy traveling apart from the others, the younger brother became lost in the woods with his elder brother. When his brother began changing into a rattlesnake, he carried him to a hole; then he returned to the village and told their parents what had happened. After ten days at home, he asked his mother to make five pairs of moccasins for his journey to visit his brother.

In Part 2, he killed a man, captured a woman, and left her and two animals with his snake brother, saying, “They are yours.” After a long time, he returned to the village; later, he became a chief and grew rich, with many horses.

Relationship record

Life events

The elder brother began changing into a rattlesnake after eating squirrel and marrow together.(The Snake Brother · Part 1)
- With: the elder brother (The Snake Brother)
- “About the middle of the night, the elder brother felt a noise in his feet, and he sat up and felt of his legs and feet, and he found that his feet were stuck together, and were beginning to get round, like a snake, and had a rattle on the end of them, and that his legs were round and like the tail of a great big rattlesnake.”
The elder brother completely changed into a snake, and the younger brother carried him to a hole.(The Snake Brother · Part 1)
- With: the elder brother (The Snake Brother)
- “The young man took the snake in his arms, and carried him over to the hole, and put him on the ground by it.”
The younger brother returned to the village and told his parents what had happened to his brother.(The Snake Brother · Part 1)
- With: the father (The Snake Brother) the mother (The Snake Brother)
- “When he reached the village, he told all these things to his father and his mother.”
The younger brother set out alone to visit his snake brother, carrying supplies made by his mother.(The Snake Brother · Part 1)
- With: the mother (The Snake Brother)
- “After he had been home ten days, he told his mother to make for him five pairs of moccasins, that he was going on the warpath for himself.”
The boy shot and killed the man.(The Snake Brother · Part 2)
- With: the man (The Snake Brother)
- “He shot two arrows into the man and killed him and counted coup on him, and captured the woman.”
The boy captured the woman.(The Snake Brother · Part 2)
- With: the woman (The Snake Brother)
- “He shot two arrows into the man and killed him and counted coup on him, and captured the woman.”
The boy left the woman and two animals for the snake to keep.(The Snake Brother · Part 2)
- With: the elder brother (The Snake Brother) the woman (The Snake Brother)
- “Now, brother, I am going away, and I give you these two animals and this woman to keep. They are yours.”
The boy returned to the village.(The Snake Brother · Part 2 · 📍 the village)
- “Then he started for his home, and after a long time he arrived at the village.”
The boy became a chief and grew very rich, with many horses.(The Snake Brother · Part 2)
- “He became a chief and was very rich, having many horses.”

The Snake Brother · Part 1

siblings with the elder brother (The Snake Brother) “In this party were two brothers, poor boys, and one day as they were traveling along, apart from the others, in a piece of woods where it was very thick, they got lost.”
parent: the father (The Snake Brother) “When he reached the village, he told all these things to his father and his mother.”
parent: the mother (The Snake Brother) “When he reached the village, he told all these things to his father and his mother.”

The Snake Brother · Part 2

siblings with the elder brother (The Snake Brother) “Then he took the woman and went down to where the horses were, and they got on two of them, and rode back to where his brother, the snake, lived, driving the horses before them.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales. Made with Rho MD.