{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Native American","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nam_iro_sim_sim06_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nam_iro_sim_sim06_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nam_iro_sim_sim06_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nam/iro/sim/sim06.htm","summary":"This is a Native American oral narrative, likely from an Iroquoian tradition, presenting a mythic tale organized around tests of supernatural power and the social consequences of jealousy and desire. The story follows Wolf-Marked, a powerful hunter whose sister \u2014 chafing at being confined to their home \u2014 conspires with a spirit being disguised as a Turkey to lure her brother into an endless chase that ends with him thrown off a cliff. Revived by river women who adopt him, Wolf-Marked quietly rebuilds his strength while a shabby, socially marginal companion acts as his proxy in a public contest at the chief's house, where men compete to animate spirit pouches that must circle a fire \u2014 with hidden medicine and two enchanted pouches (mud turtle and fawn skin) ultimately succeeding where all others fail. A distinctive feature is the story's interest in proxy action and deferred authority: Wolf-Marked wins the chief's daughter without ever appearing at the contest, operating entirely through the old woman and Shabby Man. The text also frames the sister's desire for freedom as the origin of catastrophe, while simultaneously treating the socially marginal (the shabby man, the river women) as the agents who restore and advance the hero.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Seneca Indian Myths: The Adventures of Wolf-Marked","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Native American","translated_text":null,"word_count":4689}