Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales — Chronicle
Ordered by year where the text states one — taken as written, never inferred. This book has no continuous chronology, so nothing is carried forward: events with no stated year are listed at the end, in chapter order. Every event links back to one sentence of the original.
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177 events · 29 carry a year stated nearby in the text · the rest left undated
1867 (5 events)
Lone Chief · Part 1 · when the boy was very young, less than a year old
Lone Chief the father (Lone Chief)
His father died when the boy was very young, less than a year old.
Lone Chief · Part 1
Lone Chief the mother (Lone Chief)
Until he was old enough to go to war, his mother had supported him by farming--raising corn, beans and pumpkins.
Lone Chief · Part 1 · In the year 1867
In the year 1867 he enlisted in the Pawnee Scouts under Major Frank North, and served in L. H. North's company.
Lone Chief · Part 1 · 📍 [[the Cheyenne Pass]] · in 1867
At a fight near the Cheyenne Pass in 1867, he counted coup on a woman and a man, Arapahoes who had stolen some horses at Fort Laramie.
Lone Chief · Part 1
Lone Chief the chief priest (Lone Chief) Ti-ra´-wa
It was customary for the leading man in a party to make a sacrifice to Ti-ra´-wa. Running Chief did this, giving one horse to the chief priest. This sacrifice promoted him to be a warrior.
1868 (2 events)
Lone Chief · Part 1 · when he was a boy only ten years old
Lone Chief the sister (Lone Chief) the husband (Lone Chief sister)
He remembered how his sister had been killed when he was a boy only ten years old, and how he had mourned for her, when her husband, who was jealous of her, had shot her through the body with an arrow and killed her.
Lone Chief · Part 1
Lone Chief the friend (Lone Chief)
Running Chief thought again, and at last he said, "On account of my feelings I have decided to go into the camp of my enemies, and be eaten by their dogs." The other man said, "Whatever you have determined on I also will do."
1869 (10 events)
Lone Chief · Part 3
Lone Chief the friend (Lone Chief)
Although we are enemies of this man's tribe, yet we are the same people with them, who have been apart for a long time. I cannot help it; my heart is touched by his talk and by their bravery. By their bravery they are safe.
Lone Chief · Part 3
Lone Chief the friend (Lone Chief)
Then all the Wichitas began to speak at once, and before they knew it, the Pawnees had ten head of horses, and robes and blankets, saddles, bridles, shields, spears and moccasins--many beautiful presents.
Lone Chief · Part 3
Lone Chief the friend (Lone Chief)
These Pawnees staid two months with the Wichitas, and all their troubles seemed at an end. At length Running Chief called a council of the chiefs, and told them that now he wished to make ready to go home to his village.
Lone Chief · Part 3 · in the spring (March, 1869)
Lone Chief the friend (Lone Chief)
It was in the spring (March, 1869) when they reached home, and there was joy in the tribe when they came in with the presents. Running Chief was praised, and so was his friend.
Lone Chief · Part 3
Now Running Chief's name was changed from Wi-ti-ti le-shar´-uspi to Skür´-ar-a le-shar (Lone Chief).
Lone Chief · Part 3 · 📍 [[Wichitas]] · The following summer in August
The following summer in August, at the close of the summer hunt, three hundred Pawnees, old men and young, under the leadership of Lone Chief, visited the Wichitas, who received them well, and gave them many horses.
Lone Chief · Part 3 · 📍 [[Kiowas]] · The following summer in August
He also visited the Kiowas, and made peace, and was given by them eight fine horses.
Lone Chief · Part 3 · 📍 [[Comanches]] · The following summer in August
He also led his party to the Comanches, and visited them, and got many presents.
Lone Chief · Part 3 · 📍 [[Cheyennes]] · In the winter of 1869-70
In the winter of 1869-70 Lone Chief and his friend led a war party against the Cheyennes. They took six hundred head of horses.
Lone Chief · Part 3 · 📍 [[the north side of the Republican, on the table lands]] · For three days and three nights
Lone Chief the friend (Lone Chief)
For three days and three nights they lay in the storm. All were frozen, some losing toes and fingers. They survived, however, and brought in all their horses.
1876 (4 events)
A Leader Of Soldiers · 📍 [[village]] · In 1876
General Mackenzie Dull Knife Pawnee Scouts Lieut. McKinney
In 1876, when the attack was made by General Mackenzie on the village of the Cheyenne chief, Dull Knife, the Pawnee Scouts charged down on the village on the south side of the creek, while on the north side of the stream, a company of United States cavalry, under Lieut. McKinney, were making a charge.
A Leader Of Soldiers · 📍 [[ravine]] · In 1876
Lieut. McKinney
Lieut. McKinney was killed at the first volley,
A Leader Of Soldiers · In 1876
the first sergeant
and immediately afterward his first sergeant fell, leaving the troop without a commander.
A Leader Of Soldiers · 📍 [[ravine]] · In 1876
Ralph J. Weeks the soldiers the Indians in the ravine
The men stopped in their retreat, dismounted, and under Ralph's direction and leadership, went forward, and did kill all the Indians in the ravine.
1879 (8 events)
Wolves In The Night · about six o'clock the next morning
Little Warrior the Chaui boy
They did so, and secured them, and drove them in to their own camp, which they reached about six o'clock the next morning.
Wolves In The Night · afterward
Little Warrior the Chaui boy
These taken by the two Pawnees were seven of the stolen animals, and each of the men received $50 as his proportion of the reward.
Little Warrior'S Counsel · In the year 1879
Little Warrior
In the year 1879, at the time of the Ute outbreak, after Major Thornburgh's command had been annihilated, Little Warrior was employed as a scout for the troops.
Little Warrior'S Counsel
Little Warrior
The Ute said, "My friend, your words are good, and I thank you for the friendly advice you have given me. I will follow it and will agree to go away and bring in my people."
Little Warrior'S Counsel
the Ute
The Ute raised his hand and made the promise.
Little Warrior'S Counsel · After he had been detained two or three weeks
the Ute
After he had been detained two or three weeks, he was allowed to go
Little Warrior'S Counsel · about a month afterward
the Ute
about a month afterward, he brought in the band of which he was chief, and surrendered.
Little Warrior'S Counsel · afterward
the Ute
Through his influence afterward, the whole tribe came in and gave themselves up.
Undated
Comanche Chief · Part 1
He cut the ropes of the two spotted horses standing outside, led the horses out of the camp, and met his companion.
Comanche Chief · Part 1 · For one year
For one year he went on like this, gathering together these pretty things. When the year had gone by he had no horses left; he had given them all away to get these presents.
Comanche Chief · Part 1 · one night
Kut-a´wi-kutz the friend (Comanche Chief)
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.
Comanche Chief · Part 1
Kut-a´wi-kutz the friend (Comanche Chief)
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.
Comanche Chief · Part 1 · the middle of the night
He took his blanket, and spread it over the bed where the girl was lying, stepped over the bed, and crept under his own blanket, and lay down by her side.
Comanche Chief · Part 2
Kut-a´wi-kutz the girl (Comanche Chief) the grandfather (Comanche Chief)
I want my granddaughter to go and take her seat by this man, and for them to be man and wife. Since I was young we have been enemies, but now I want the two tribes to come together, join hands and be friends. And so it was decided.
Comanche Chief · Part 2 · 📍 [[the Head Chief's lodge]] · By this time it was daylight
They crowded about the lodge, all the people, the old men and the women and the young men, so many that at last they pushed the lodge down. They shouted: "Let us have the Pawnee. Last night they stole many horses from us."
Comanche Chief · Part 2
The chiefs and braves got around the Pawnee, and kept the Comanches off from him, and protected him from the people.
Comanche Chief · Part 2 · Now
the friend (Comanche Chief) 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.
Comanche Chief · Part 3 · the next morning
Kut-a´wi-kutz the friend (Comanche Chief)
He looked for his friend, and at last he found him there dead at the foot of the tree.
Comanche Chief · Part 3
Kut-a´wi-kutz proved himself a brave man, and, as the son-in-law of the chief, he soon gained great influence, and was himself made a chief.
Comanche Chief · Part 3 · 📍 [[the Pawnee village]] · After they had returned to the Comanche camp
Kut-a´wi-kutz the grandfather (Comanche Chief)
After they had returned to the Comanche camp, the old grandfather died, happy because he had eaten the things he wanted to eat.
Comanche Chief · Part 3 · when he went back with them
Kut-a´wi-kutz the girl (Comanche Chief)
He would have remained with the Comanches, but when he went back with them his wife fell sick. The Comanche doctors could not help her, and he wanted to take her north to see the Pawnee doctors, but the Comanches would not let him. They kept him there, and his wife died.
Comanche Chief · Part 3 · So
So he left the Comanches, and went and lived with the Pawnees, and was known among them always as Comanche Chief, the Peace-Maker, because he made peace between the Pawnees and Comanches.
Comanche Chief · Part 3 · After they had camped together for some time
When they met, the two tribes made friends, smoked together, ate together, became friends.
Lone Chief · Part 2
Lone Chief the friend (Lone Chief)
When Running Chief got off the horse, he held tightly the belt of the Wichita, who dismounted; and they went together into the lodge of the Head Chief, and the others followed and went in, and all sat down opposite the door.
Lone Chief · Part 2
Lone Chief the friend (Lone Chief)
After he had eaten a few mouthfuls, he took his arrows, which he had held in his hand, and put them in his quiver, and unstrung his bow and laid it aside, and his friend did the same.
Lone Chief · Part 2
Lone Chief the friend (Lone Chief)
They have eaten of my food. I cannot make war on people who have been eating with me.
Lone Chief · Part 2
Lone Chief the friend (Lone Chief)
He asked them, "Are you on the warpath?" and they replied, "Yes, we are on the warpath."
The Prisoners Of Court House Rock · 📍 [[Court House Rock]] · A number of years ago
the leader (The Prisoners Of Court House Rock) the Skidi the Sioux
A number of years ago a war party of Skidi, who were camped near Court House Rock, were surprised by a party of Sioux. There were many of them, and they drove the Skidi back, and at length these were obliged to climb the steep side of Court House Rock.
The Prisoners Of Court House Rock · 📍 [[Court House Rock]]
the Skidi the Sioux
The Sioux dared not follow them up on to the rock, but guarded the only place where it was possible to come down, and camped all around the rock below to starve the Skidi out.
The Prisoners Of Court House Rock · 📍 [[Court House Rock]] · One night
the leader (The Prisoners Of Court House Rock) the Skidi
He got there safely, and then climbed back again.
The Prisoners Of Court House Rock · 📍 [[Court House Rock]] · The next night
the leader (The Prisoners Of Court House Rock) the Skidi
He let himself down, and they all crept through the Sioux camp and escaped.
A Cheyenne Blanket · 📍 [[the Cheyenne camp]] · in broad daylight
the Pawnee boy (A Cheyenne Blanket) the Cheyenne horse owner (A Cheyenne Blanket)
A man came along, riding a horse packed with meat, and leading another pack horse, and a black spotted horse that was his running horse. These running horses are ridden only on the chase or on war parties, and are well cared for. After being used they are taken down to the river and are washed and cleaned with care. When the boy saw this spotted horse, he thought to himself that this was the horse that he would take. When the man who was leading it reached his lodge, he dismounted and handed the ropes to his women, and went inside. Then the Pawnee made up his mind what he would do. He started down the hill into the village, and walked straight to this lodge where the women were unloading the meat. He walked up to them, reached out his hand, and took the ropes of the spotted horse and one of the others. As he did so the women fell back. Probably they thought that this was some one of the relations of the owner, who was going to take the running horse down to the river to wash it. The Pawnee could not talk Cheyenne, but as he turned away he mumbled something--m-m-m-m--as if speaking in a low voice, and then walked down toward the river. As soon as he had gone down over the bank and was out of sight, he jumped on the spotted horse and rode into the brush, and pretty soon was away with two horses, stolen out of the Cheyenne camp in broad daylight.
A Comanche Bundle · 📍 [[the Comanche village]] · At night
the Pawnee boy
At night he went into the camp, crept to the door of a lodge, and took a horse that was tied there. It was bright moonlight, and as he was cutting the rope he saw, hanging before the lodge, a handsome shield and a spear, which he took. There was also a bundle hanging there. He took this down, opened it, and found in it a war bonnet, beaded moccasins and leggings, and a breast-plate of long beads.
The Dun Horse · Part 1
the boy (The Dun Horse) the old woman (The Dun Horse) the dun horse
So the old woman put her pack on the horse, and drove him along, but he limped and could only go very slowly.
The Dun Horse · Part 1 · 📍 [[Court House Rock]]
the boy (The Dun Horse) the daughter (The Dun Horse)
First he picked out the spotted calf, and charging up alongside of it, U-ra-rish! straight flew the arrow. The calf fell.
The Dun Horse · Part 1 · 📍 [[Court House Rock]]
the boy (The Dun Horse) the dun horse
His back was all right again; his legs were well and fine; and both his eyes were clear and bright.
The Dun Horse · Part 1 · 📍 [[Court House Rock]]
the boy (The Dun Horse) the daughter (The Dun Horse)
On the way to camp, one of the rich young chiefs of the tribe rode up by the boy, and offered him twelve good horses for the spotted robe, so that he could marry the Head Chief's beautiful daughter; but the boy laughed at him and would not sell the robe.
The Dun Horse · Part 1 · The next day
the boy (The Dun Horse) the dun horse
But when he got among the Sioux, one Sioux warrior drew an arrow and shot. The arrow struck the dun horse behind the forelegs and pierced him through. And the horse fell down dead.
The Dun Horse · Part 1 · The next day
the boy (The Dun Horse) the Head Chief (The Dun Horse)
And he counted coup on the Chief, and killed him, and then rode back. After that he charged again among the Sioux, where they were gathered thickest, and counted coup on their bravest warrior, and killed him. And then twice more, until he had gone four times as the horse had told him.
The Dun Horse · Part 1 · toward night
The Pawnees and Sioux fought all day long, but toward night the Sioux broke and fled.
The Dun Horse · Part 2
the boy (The Dun Horse) the daughter (The Dun Horse)
Now the boy was rich, and he married the beautiful daughter of the Head Chief
The Dun Horse · Part 2 · when he became older
the boy (The Dun Horse) the Head Chief (The Dun Horse)
and when he became older, he was made Head Chief himself.
The Dun Horse · Part 2 · one day
the oldest boy (The Dun Horse) the boy (The Dun Horse)
and one day when his oldest boy died, he wrapped him in the spotted calf robe and buried him in it.
The Dun Horse · Part 2 · until she died
the old woman (The Dun Horse) the boy (The Dun Horse)
He always took good care of his old grandmother, and kept her in his own lodge until she died.
The Dun Horse · Part 2 · at last
the dun horse
And at last he died.
A Story Of Faith · Part 1
the young man (A Story Of Faith) the father (A Story Of Faith)
His father had asked him to marry, but he would not.
A Story Of Faith · Part 1 · About summer time
the great doctor (A Story Of Faith) the young man (A Story Of Faith)
The great doctor had poisoned him with this result.
A Story Of Faith · Part 1 · Before they started
the young man (A Story Of Faith) the father (A Story Of Faith)
But instead of going in the direction the tribe had taken, he went east.
A Story Of Faith · Part 1
the young man (A Story Of Faith)
When he had finished his prayer, he went up to the horse, and stabbed it with his knife and killed it, and it fell down dead.
A Story Of Faith · Part 1 · 📍 [[Pa-huk]] · The fourth night
the young man (A Story Of Faith)
The elk said, "I have heard of you and of your condition, and I am here to tell you that we all know your trouble.
A Story Of Faith · Part 2 · The next night
the man (A Story Of Faith) the bird (A Story Of Faith) the white beaver
When the time came, the bird flew close to him, and said, "Come. Let us go to the edge of the cut bank."
A Story Of Faith · Part 2 · 📍 [[Pa´howa]]
the man (A Story Of Faith) the white beaver
Then the white beaver said, "My friend, you see that no one of us have the power to help you. There is another lodge of Nahu´rac at Pa´howa. You must go there and ask them."
A Story Of Faith · Part 2 · 📍 [[Pa´howa]] · the next morning
the man (A Story Of Faith) the elk (A Story Of Faith)
The man slept and the elk took him on its back and carried him while asleep, and the next morning he found himself on that point of Pa´howa.
A Story Of Faith · Part 2 · 📍 [[Pa´howa]] · That night
the man (A Story Of Faith) the bird (A Story Of Faith) the Nahu´rac
That night the messenger bird came to him and said, "Now, my friend, follow me, and what you see me do, that do yourself.
A Story Of Faith · Part 2 · 📍 [[the west side of the Loup River]]
the man (A Story Of Faith) the white beaver
Then they put him to sleep, and when he awoke next morning, he was on top of the ground near Pa´howa.
A Story Of Faith · Part 2 · 📍 [[the Loup]] · That night
the man (A Story Of Faith) the elk (A Story Of Faith)
That night the elk took him while he was asleep to the place on the Loup.
A Story Of Faith · Part 2 · 📍 [[an island in the Platte, near the Lone Tree]]
the man (A Story Of Faith) the white beaver
Then the white beaver directed him to go to an island in the Platte, near the Lone Tree, where there was another lodge of the Nahu´rac.
A Story Of Faith · Part 2 · 📍 [[an island in the Platte, near the Lone Tree]]
the man (A Story Of Faith) the elk (A Story Of Faith)
The elk took him to this island.
A Story Of Faith · Part 2 · 📍 [[Pa-huk´]]
the man (A Story Of Faith) the white beaver
I want you to go back there, and tell the leaders there that they are the rulers, and that whatever they shall do will be right, and will be agreed to by the other lodges.
A Story Of Faith · Part 3
the young man (A Story Of Faith)
So they kept going until they had eaten all the swelling. The young man was unconscious all this time, for he afterward said he knew nothing of what had happened.
A Story Of Faith · Part 3 · After a while
the young man (A Story Of Faith)
After a while he moved and came to life, and felt himself just as he had been many months before. He found that his trouble was gone and that he was cured.
A Story Of Faith · Part 3
the young man (A Story Of Faith)
He stayed there several nights, watching the doings of the Nahu´rac. They taught him all their ways, all the animal secrets.
A Story Of Faith · Part 3
the young man (A Story Of Faith)
The young man went home to his village, and got there in the night. He had long been mourned as dead, and his father was now poor in mind on account of him.
A Story Of Faith · Part 3
the young man (A Story Of Faith) the father (A Story Of Faith)
He went into his father's lodge, and touched him, and said, "Wake up, I am here."
A Story Of Faith · Part 3
The father went about and told his relations that his son had come back, and they were very glad, and came into the lodge, bringing the presents, and gave them to the boy.
A Story Of Faith · Part 3 · A few days after this
the young man (A Story Of Faith)
When the people found the doctor he was dead in his lodge, and he was all hollow. All his blood and the inside of him had gone into the river, and had gone down to feed the animals. So the boy kept his promise to the Nahu´rac and had revenge on the doctor.
A Story Of Faith · Part 4
the boy the Kit-ke-hahk´-i band
He taught them all the wonderful things that the doctors can do, and many other things.
The Bear Man · before this boy was born
the boy's father (The Bear Man) the he bear
After he had thought about this for a while, he put a string around its neck and tied some medicine smoking stuff, Indian tobacco, to it, and said, "Pi-rau´--child, you are a Nahu´rac; Ti-ra´-wa made you, and takes care of you.
The Bear Man
the boy (The Bear Man) the boy's father (The Bear Man) the boy's mother (The Bear Man)
When his child was born it had all the ways of a bear.
The Bear Man · 📍 [[the Kit-ke-hahk´-i band]] · before her child is born
the woman (The Bear Man rabbit story) the child (The Bear Man rabbit story)
There was a woman in the Kit-ke-hahk´-i band, who caught a rabbit, and, because it was gentle and soft, she took it up in her hands and held it before her face and petted it, and when her child was born it had a split nose, like a rabbit.
The Bear Man · 📍 [[the Running Water]]
The Pawnees were overpowered, their enemies were so many, and all were killed.
The Bear Man · in the afternoon
the boy (The Bear Man) the he bear the she bear (The Bear Man)
Pretty soon the man began to move, and to come to life, and then he became conscious and had life.
The Bear Man · 📍 [[a cave in the rocks among the cedars]]
the boy (The Bear Man) the he bear the she bear (The Bear Man)
He lived with the bears until he was quite healed of his wounds, and also had come to understand all their ways.
The Bear Man · Now you are well
the boy (The Bear Man) the he bear
I am going to make you a great man; but you must not deceive yourself.
The Bear Man · 📍 [[the village]] · Soon after this
the boy (The Bear Man) the he bear
They started, and went to the village, and waited near it till it was night.
The Bear Man · 📍 [[the village]] · Then
the boy (The Bear Man) the boy's father (The Bear Man)
The man went into the village, and his father was very much surprised, and very glad to see him again.
The Bear Man · When they were about to part
the boy (The Bear Man) the he bear
Because my mouth has touched your mouth you shall be made wise.
The Ghost Wife · after four days had passed
the man (The Ghost Wife) the first wife (The Ghost Wife)
The man did as he had been told, and after four days had passed, the curtain was lifted, and the woman came out from behind it.
The Ghost Wife · A long time after this
the man (The Ghost Wife) the second wife (The Ghost Wife)
A long time after this, the man took another wife.
The Ghost Wife · During the night
the first wife (The Ghost Wife)
During the night he awoke, and found that his wife had disappeared. She was seen no more.
The Ghost Wife · The next night after this happened
the man (The Ghost Wife) the child (The Ghost Wife)
The next night after this happened, the man and the child both died in sleep.
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.
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."
Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1 · 📍 [[hill]] · The next morning at daylight
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."
Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1
the man (Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush) 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.
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.
Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1 · four days and four nights
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.
Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1 · On the night of the fourth day
They made the surround, and let the yellow calf and its mother go.
Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1 · 📍 [[hill]] · After the second surround
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.
Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1 · After the third surround
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.
Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1 · The fourth surround
The fourth surround was made, and the people killed many buffalo, and saved the meat.
Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 1 · The night after this last surround
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 2 · The second time
Carrying Mother
The second time the suffering was great, and they held a council to ask him to help the tribe. They filled up the pipe and held it out to him, asking him to take pity on the tribe. He took the pipe, and lighted it, and smoked. He did it in the same way as the first time, and they made four surrounds, and got much meat.
Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 2
Carrying Mother
When this man died, all the people mourned for him a long time.
Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush · Part 2 · only recently
Big Knife
Big Knife, a Skidi, who died only recently, said that the man was alive in his time.
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · near sundown
The Sioux followed him and found him, and chased him about, and shot at him all day, until near sundown, when they killed him.
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · 📍 [[the village]]
the father (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa) the mother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
his father and mother mourned, and said, "Now we have no one to help us hoe. We are old, and he helped us; but now he is gone."
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · After two months
His mother had cried so much for Pa-hu-ka´-tawa, that she had become blind.
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · 📍 [[the lodge]] · One night, at midnight
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa the mother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
He said to her, "Mother, I am here," and she reached out and felt him.
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · 📍 [[the lodge]] · One night, at midnight
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa the mother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
He gave her a piece of meat--a piece of fresh buffalo meat--though they had had no fresh meat in the village for six months.
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · After a long time
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa the mother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
Now, my mother, there is standing by the side of your daughter's bed, water in a wooden bowl.
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · After he had gone
the mother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa) the daughter (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
when she took her face out of the water, and opened her eyes again, she could see.
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · After a long time
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
I want to talk to you, and tell you my thoughts and all my troubles. I am a spirit.
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 1 · 📍 [[outside the camp]] · the first night after the lodge had been set up outside the camp
the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
and the first night after the lodge had been set up outside the camp, Pa-hu-ka´-tawa came down,
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 2 · 📍 [[the lodge]] · The next night after the day of the battle
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
Then he told the story of his being killed. He said, "That time after I got killed, all kinds of Nahu´rac took pity on me.
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 2 · the next morning
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
Then they made the charge, and each one of those who had asked a favor received it. In every case what Pa-hu-ka´-tawa had promised came true.
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 3 · 📍 [[Skidi village]] · Two days before they came
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
Two days before they came, Pa-hu-ka´-tawa came down to his brother and warned him, saying, "A big war party of Sioux will be here day after to-morrow to fight with you.
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 3 · On the morning that he had said
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
The Skidi overcame the Sioux and drove them, and the Sioux ran far.
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa · Part 3 · 📍 [[the Rees]] · after that
Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa the oldest brother (Pa-Hu-Ka´-Tawa)
So Pa-hu-ka´-tawa went away to the Rees, and the people knew him no more; after that he never came down to see them.
The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 1 · 📍 [[the Platte]] · One morning
the father (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed) the boy (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed)
When they got to the river, as they were walking along, the man took his knife from its sheath, and caught the boy by the shoulder, and stabbed him quickly, and cut him open. When the boy was dead, he threw the body into the river, and then went back to the village.
The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 1 · 📍 [[Pa-hük´]]
the boy (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed)
Then all the Nahu´rac stood up, and went to where the boy lay, and stood around him and prayed, and at last the boy breathed once, and then after a little while he breathed again, and at last he came to life and sat up.
The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 1 · one season
the boy (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed)
They taught the boy all their secrets, and all their ways. They taught him how to cut a man open and cure him again, and how to shoot an arrow through a man and then cure him, and how to cut a man's tongue out and then to put it back, and how to make well a broken leg, and many other things. After they had done all these things, they said to the boy, "Now we have brought you back to life, and have taught you all these things, so that you are one of us. Now you must stop with us one season.
The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 2 · 📍 [[the village]] · in the night
the boy (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed) the mother (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed) the father (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed)
He went up to her, and put out his hand and touched her, and pushed her a little. She awoke, and sat up and looked at him, and he said, "I've come back."
The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 2
the boy (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed) the father (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed)
He knew that he could never have learned all these wonderful things unless his father had sacrificed him.
The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 2 · 📍 [[the Nahu´rac lodge at Pa-hük´]] · After the feast
the boy (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed)
After the feast they had a doctors' dance, and the boy was made a doctor, and again was taught all that the Nahu´rac knew.
The Snake Brother · Part 1 · About the middle of the night
the elder brother (The Snake Brother) the younger 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 Snake Brother · Part 1
the elder brother (The Snake Brother) the younger 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 Snake Brother · Part 1
the younger brother (The Snake Brother) 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 Snake Brother · Part 1 · After he had been home ten days
the younger brother (The Snake Brother) 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 Snake Brother · Part 2
the younger brother (The Snake Brother) 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 Snake Brother · Part 2
the younger brother (The Snake Brother) 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 Snake Brother · Part 2
the younger brother (The Snake Brother) 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 Snake Brother · Part 2 · 📍 [[the village]] · after a long time
the younger brother (The Snake Brother)
Then he started for his home, and after a long time he arrived at the village.
The Snake Brother · Part 2 · After a time
the younger brother (The Snake Brother)
He became a chief and was very rich, having many horses.
O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1 · A long time ago
the Pawnee man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the wife (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.
O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1
the Pawnee man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
So he was very unhappy, and determined to leave the tribe and wander off alone, far from his people. He did so.
O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1
the Pawnee man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
The child began to improve, and to get a little stronger. In this way he supported it for quite a long time, and it did pretty well, and at last it got used to this food, and became strong and well.
O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1 · After he had been gone two days and two nights
the Pawnee man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
He kept looking at her, and at last he remembered who she was, and that she had been captured long ago from the Pawnees. Her people were still living. The man was a Comanche.
O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1
the Pawnee man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the first captive woman (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
She answered him, "Yes, I belong to your tribe." Then she said in a very low voice that shook, for she was afraid, "Do you belong to my tribe?" The man said, "Yes."
O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1
the first captive woman (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the second captive woman (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
She answered him, "She also belongs to our tribe, and is a prisoner."
O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1
the Pawnee man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the Comanche man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
He made a little bit of an opening by the door, just big enough to let an arrow pass through, and when the time came he let it go. U´-ra-rîsh! the arrow flew straight, and pierced the Comanche through the heart. So he died, and the Pawnee counted coup on him and took his scalp.
O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1
the Pawnee man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the first captive woman (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the second captive woman (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
They took down the lodge, and packed everything on the horses, and drove off the herd, leaving the dead body of the enemy in the camp.
O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 1
the Pawnee man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the first captive woman (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the second captive woman (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
When they came to the boy, they took him in their arms and petted him, and took him as their own.
O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 2 · 📍 [[the Pawnee tribe]] · one night
the Pawnee man (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) the boy (O´Re-Ka-Rahr)
They found out that the man and child, who were lost, had returned, and with them two women, captured long ago by the Comanches.
O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 2 · 📍 [[the Pawnee tribe]] · The next morning
the wife (O´Re-Ka-Rahr) 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 2 · 📍 [[the Pawnee tribe]]
Then the man gave his relations many horses.
O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 2 · After he had grown up
The child grew to be a man, and was wealthy.
O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 2 · After he had grown up
In order that the O´re-ka-rahr might be remembered, he established a dance, called the deer dance, which has been kept up to this day.
O´Re-Ka-Rahr · Part 2 · 📍 [[camp]] · that night
The first man killed was this young man. He was very brave, and the Cheyennes cut him up into small pieces, but that night it lightened and thundered and rained, and soon after the storm was over, the young man came walking into camp alive.
The Ghost Bride · 📍 [[village]] · just before the tribe started on the hunt
the young woman (The Ghost Bride)
a young woman died just before the tribe started on the hunt.
The Ghost Bride
the young man (The Ghost Bride) the young woman (The Ghost Bride) the woman relative (The Ghost Bride)
Instead of doing what she had said, he told who she was, and the girl disappeared because she was a ghost.
The Ghost Bride · That same night
the young man (The Ghost Bride)
That same night this young man died in sleep.
The Boy Who Saw A-Ti´-Us · Part 1
the boy (The Boy Who Saw A-Ti-Us)
He was so weak he could not get up, and they came to him, one on each side, and stooped down, and pushed their shoulders under him, and raised him up and put him on their backs, and then spread their broad wings, and flew away upward.
The Boy Who Saw A-Ti´-Us · Part 1
the boy (The Boy Who Saw A-Ti-Us)
So he kept the boy there for a little while longer, and gave him some fine new clothing and weapons, and then he told one of the warriors to send the boy back; and the warrior led him out of the lodge to where the swans were standing near the entrance, and the boy got on to their backs.
The Boy Who Saw A-Ti´-Us · Part 1 · That night after dark
the boy (The Boy Who Saw A-Ti-Us) the woman (The Boy Who Saw A-Ti-Us)
In a moment the boy lifted the lodge door, and came in, and sat down by the fire, and said to the woman, "Go out and bring in some meat." The woman looked at him, for she was astonished, but he said nothing, so she went out, and there in the snow by the side of the lodge was a fat buffalo cow.
The Boy Who Saw A-Ti´-Us · Part 2
the poor boy (The Boy Who Saw A-Ti´-Us) the Pawnees
The buffalo could not get away on account of the deep snow, and the Pawnees made a great killing. Plenty of fat meat they got, enough to last them until the summer hunt, and plenty of warm winter robes.
The Boy Who Saw A-Ti´-Us · Part 2 · And the poor boy became
the poor boy (The Boy Who Saw A-Ti´-Us)
And the poor boy became a great doctor in the tribe, and got rich.
The Boy Who Saw A-Ti´-Us · Part 2 · when the woman who was chief died
the woman chief (The Boy Who Saw A-Ti´-Us) the poor boy (The Boy Who Saw A-Ti´-Us) the Pawnees
when the woman who was chief died, she named the poor boy as her successor, and the people made him head chief of the tribe.
How The Deer Lost His Gall · 📍 [[the prairie]] · A long time ago
the deer (Pawnee tale) the antelope (Pawnee tale)
The antelope ran the faster, and won, and took the deer's gall.
How The Deer Lost His Gall
the deer (Pawnee tale) the antelope (Pawnee tale)
to cheer him up, he took off his dew-claws and gave them to him.
How The Deer Lost His Gall · 📍 [[the timber]] · Since then
the deer (Blackfeet tale) the antelope (Blackfeet tale)
The deer ran the faster through the thick timber and over the logs, and beat the antelope, and took his dew-claws.
Yellow Fox
Kiwuk-u lah´-kahta (Yellow Fox) a great big buffalo bull the Father
The boy's heart became strong when he heard that the Father had sent the bull, and he followed him, and the bull led him straight to the camp.