the chief's son (Tale 22)

Family: Arikara · Role: the idiot boy's friend · First appears: Tale 22 · The Boy Who Turned Into a Snake

The chief’s son was the only boy who did not plague the idiot boy who turned into a Snake; instead, he took a liking to him. On the fourth morning, when the boy’s legs had joined into a snake’s tail, the young man promised to care for him and carried him to the nearest lake. The next morning, he took the Snake to the Missouri River, where the Snake said he was to stay in its middle.

Relationship record

Life events

• The idiot boy's legs joined into a snake's tail, and he turned into a Snake.(Tale 22 · The Boy Who Turned Into a Snake)
  • With: the idiot boy who turned into a Snake (Tale 22)
  • “The fourth morning the boy found his legs had grown together and had turned into the tail of a snake. The other young man promised to take care of him as long as he could. He carried the boy upon his back to the nearest lake. The idiot now turned into a Snake.”
• The boy placed the Snake in the Missouri River, where the Snake declared he was to stay.(Tale 22 · The Boy Who Turned Into a Snake · 📍 the Missouri River)
  • With: the idiot boy who turned into a Snake (Tale 22)
  • “So the boy took the Snake down to the Missouri River and put it into the river. The Snake swam around in the river and came out and said: “My brother, I am to rest in the middle of the Missouri River.”

Tale 22 · The Boy Who Turned Into a Snake

• friends with the idiot boy who turned into a Snake (Tale 22) (The chief's son takes a liking to the idiot boy.) “All the boys plagued him except one whose father was a chief and who took a liking for the boy.”
• parent: the chief (Tale 22) “All the boys plagued him except one whose father was a chief and who took a liking for the boy.”

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