the friend (Comanche Chief)

Family: Pawnee · Role: Kut-a´wi-kutz's friend · First appears: Comanche Chief · Part 1

One night, Kut-a´wi-kutz asked his friend to join him alone on the warpath, and his friend agreed. Kut-a´wi-kutz told him that, on their previous journey, he had seen a girl by a fire and could not put her out of his mind; he had returned to the camp to take her. Their friendship was summed up in Kut-a´wi-kutz’s words: “You are my friend; who is so near to me as you are?”

In Part 2, the friend watched the camp from a hill. Believing Kut-a´wi-kutz had been killed, he stabbed himself against a tree and died. The next morning, Kut-a´wi-kutz searched for his friend and found him dead at the foot of the tree.

Relationship record

Life events

• Kut-a´wi-kutz asked his friend to accompany him on the warpath, and his friend agreed.(Comanche Chief · Part 1)
  • With: Kut-a´wi-kutz
  • “I intend to go off on the warpath again, and I would like to have you go with me; we two will go alone.” His friend agreed to go.”
• Kut-a´wi-kutz revealed that he had returned to the camp to take the girl he had seen the year before.(Comanche Chief · Part 1)
  • With: Kut-a´wi-kutz
  • “He said to him, “My brother, when we were on the warpath a year ago, and I took those two spotted horses, I heard a little noise in the lodge by which they were tied. I looked in and I saw there a girl sitting by the fire combing her hair. She was very pretty. When I took the spotted horses away, I could not put that girl out of my mind.”
• The friend, believing Kut-a´wi-kutz had been killed, stabbed himself and died.(Comanche Chief · Part 2)
  • With: Kut-a´wi-kutz
  • “Now, the young Pawnee on the hill, who was watching the camp to see what would happen to his friend, saw the crowd and heard the shooting, and made up his mind that Kut-a´wi-kutz had been killed. So he took his knife, and put the handle against a tree and the point against his breast, and put his arms around the tree and hugged it, and the knife blade passed through his heart and he fell down and died.”
• Kut-a´wi-kutz found his friend dead at the foot of the tree.(Comanche Chief · Part 3)
  • With: Kut-a´wi-kutz
  • “He looked for his friend, and at last he found him there dead at the foot of the tree.”

Comanche Chief · Part 1

• friends with Kut-a´wi-kutz “You are my friend; who is so near to me as you are?”

Comanche Chief · Part 2

• friends with Kut-a´wi-kutz “Now, the young Pawnee on the hill, who was watching the camp to see what would happen to his friend, saw the crowd and heard the shooting, and made up his mind that Kut-a´wi-kutz had been killed.”

Comanche Chief · Part 3

• friends with Kut-a´wi-kutz “He looked for his friend, and at last he found him there dead at the foot of the tree.”

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