Native American Myth

There once was an older couple who had an only daughter. As soon as she was old enough she was being courted by the men in the village but she preferred the single life over any man. During this time in her life she fell ill and many medicine men tried to help her. As a result of her illness she died after two weeks and her body was taken several miles from camp. Although it had been a year after her death her parents still mourned her and friends and family encouraged them to move past their loss. Meanwhile a hunter and his wife were walking through the forest and noticed a stream of water coming out of the side of a bank located next to the girls scaffold. That night the hunter and his wife camped there by the dead girls scaffold. Immediately after setting up camp the dogs began to bark there was the figure of a girl coming over to them from the scaffold so they offered her food and a bed. In fact on the third night she came to visit them she was breathing so the hunter got some roots, skunk oil and vermilion and told her his wife could rub it on her and it would put new life in to her skin. They began to travel back to her village where she saw her parents again and her parents were so happy to have her back. Afterward she married the hunter and became his second wife. However soon after they were married the hunter died in a war party. A year after her husband’s death she married again. The new husband was also killed by enemies as was the third. After that the girl never married again and the men feared her. She spent much of her life after that as a doctor but fell into a sleep and never woke again.


Citation:
"The Resuscitation of the Only Daughter.” Native American Lore Index Page. Stone E Producktions, 1996. 7 November 2008. .