the wife (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)

Family: Pawnee · Role: wife and mother · First appears: O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1

A long time ago, while the Pawnee were on their summer hunt, the wife quarreled with the Pawnee man, her husband. They had a son about ten months old; angry, she handed the baby to his father, saying, “I am not going to nurse it for you any longer,” and went away.

The next morning, she came to see the boy, glad he was alive, but was whipped out of the lodge.

Relationship record

Life events

• The wife left the Pawnee man and their infant son after a quarrel.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1)
  • With: the Pawnee man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
  • “At length the wife became very angry, and threw the baby to the man, saying, ‘You take that baby. It belongs to you, for it is a man child. I am not going to nurse it for you any longer.’ Then she went away.”
• The child's mother came to see it, but was whipped out of the lodge.(O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 2 · 📍 the Pawnee tribe)
  • With: the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
  • “The mother of the child came to see it, she was so glad it was alive, but she was whipped out of the lodge.”

O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1

• married with the Pawnee man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) “A long time ago, as the tribe were on their summer hunt, a man and his wife got to quarreling.”
• child: the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) “They had a child, a boy about ten months old.”

O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 2

• child: the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) “The mother of the child came to see it, she was so glad it was alive, but she was whipped out of the lodge.”

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