the daughter (The Dun Horse)

Family: Pawnee · Role: the Head Chief's daughter · First appears: The Dun Horse · Part 1

In Part 1 of “The Dun Horse,” the Head Chief announced that whoever killed the spotted calf would have his daughter for a wife. After the boy killed the calf and won the spotted robe that qualified him to marry her, a rich young chief offered twelve horses for the robe so he could marry the daughter, but the boy refused to sell it.

In Part 2, the boy married the Head Chief’s daughter; when he grew older, he became Head Chief himself.

Relationship record

Life events

• The boy killed the spotted calf and won the robe that qualified him to marry the Head Chief's daughter.(The Dun Horse · Part 1 · 📍 Court House Rock)
  • With: the boy (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 boy refused to sell the spotted robe to a chief who wanted it so he could marry the Head Chief's daughter.(The Dun Horse · Part 1 · 📍 Court House Rock)
  • With: the boy (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 boy married the daughter of the Head Chief.(The Dun Horse · Part 2)
  • With: the boy (The Dun Horse)
  • “Now the boy was rich, and he married the beautiful daughter of the Head Chief”

The Dun Horse · Part 1

• parent: the Head Chief (The Dun Horse) “The Head Chief of the Pawnees had a very beautiful daughter, and when he heard about the spotted calf, he ordered his old crier to go about through the village, and call out that the man who killed the spotted calf should have his daughter for his wife.”

The Dun Horse · Part 2

• parent: the Head Chief (The Dun Horse) “Now the boy was rich, and he married the beautiful daughter of the Head Chief, and when he became older, he was made Head Chief himself.”
• married with the boy (The Dun Horse) “Now the boy was rich, and he married the beautiful daughter of the Head Chief, and when he became older, he was made Head Chief himself.”

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