the man (Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush)

Family: Kit-ke-hahk´-i band · Role: man who called the buffalo · First appears: Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1

At the village, Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush proposed setting up a new lodge for the people to meet in, and the Chief ordered it done. He gave people small pieces of buffalo meat to share. The next morning, when a bull appeared at the sacrifice place, he identified it as “the leader of the buffalo” and said the herd would follow where it went. He sent the servant (Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush) to tell the chiefs to choose four boys to scout beyond the hill; when the herd arrived, the people killed many buffalo and brought the meat to camp and the new lodge, where they feasted on ribs for four days and four nights.

On the night of the fourth day, the people spared a yellow calf and its mother. After the second surround, Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush ran to the hill with a pole bearing a kit fox skin and called out, “Ska-a-a-a!” The buffalo turned back toward the people, who killed many. After the third surround, he returned the presents people had given him, but some insisted he keep them. In the fourth surround, the people killed many buffalo and saved the meat. The night after this last surround, he disappeared and drove the buffalo away; the next morning, the people could see none.

Relationship record

Life events

A new lodge was set up outside the village for the people to meet in.(Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1 · 📍 village)
- “Let a new lodge be set up outside the village for us to meet in. I will see if I can do anything to relieve the tribe.” The Chief said that it was well to do this, and he gave orders for it.”
He gave people small pieces of buffalo meat that proved plentiful enough to share.(Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1)
- “Sometimes, while sitting in his own lodge during the day, he would reach behind him, and bring out a small piece of buffalo meat, fat and lean, and would give it to some one, saying, ‘When you have had enough, save what is left, and give it to some one else.’”
A buffalo bull appeared at the sacrifice place, and the man identified it as the herd’s leader.(Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1 · 📍 hill)
- “While they were looking they saw a great buffalo bull come up over the hill to the place. He stood there for a short time and looked about, and then he walked on down the hill, and went galloping off past the village. Then this man spoke to the people, and said, ‘There. That is what I meant. That is the leader of the buffalo; where he went the whole herd will follow.’”
The man sent his servant to tell the chiefs to choose four boys to scout beyond the hill.(Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1)
- With: the servant (Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush)
- “He sent his servant to the chiefs to tell them to choose four boys, and let them go to the top of the hill where the bull had come over, and to look beyond it.”
The buffalo herd arrived, and the people killed many and brought the meat to camp and the new lodge.(Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1 · 📍 village)
- “Presently the buffalo came over the hill, and the people were ready, and they made a surround, and killed all that they could, and brought them home.”
The people feasted in the new lodge on buffalo ribs.(Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1)
- “After they had brought in this meat, they went to the lodge, and staid there four days and four nights, and had a great feast, roasting these ribs.”
The people spared a yellow calf and its mother during the next buffalo surround.(Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1)
- “They made the surround, and let the yellow calf and its mother go.”
He turned a fleeing buffalo herd back toward the people, who killed many.(Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1 · 📍 hill)
- “While they were galloping away, the man ran up on to the top of the hill, to the place of sacrifice, carrying a pole, on which was tied the skin of a kit fox; and when he saw the buffalo running, and that the people could not catch them, he waved his pole, and called out Ska-a-a-a! and the buffalo turned right about, and charged back right through the people, and they killed many of them.”
He returned the presents the people had given him, though some insisted he keep them.(Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1)
- “Those presents that you have made to me, and that I did not wish to take, I give them back to you.” Some of the people would not take back the presents, but insisted that he should keep them, and at last he said he would do so.”
The people killed many buffalo and saved the meat in the final surround.(Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1)
- “The fourth surround was made, and the people killed many buffalo, and saved the meat.”
He disappeared and drove the buffalo away; the people saw no buffalo the next morning.(Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1)
- “The night after this last surround, he disappeared and drove the buffalo back. The next morning he told the people to look about, and tell him if they saw anything. They did so, but they could not see any buffalo.”

Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1

servant: the servant (Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush) “He sent his servant to the chiefs to tell them to choose four boys, and let them go to the top of the hill where the bull had come over, and to look beyond it.”

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