Motif
Broken promise to rescue wounded companion
broken_promise_to_rescue_wounded_companion
A motif of the Betrayal and Violated Trust family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american northwest coast
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Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect WAR BETWEEN THE PEBBLE-TOWN PEOPLE AND THE SLAVES / WAR BETWEEN THE PEOPLE OF KLOO AND THE PEOPLE OF NINSTINTS / WARS BETWEEN THE PEOPLE OF NINSTINTS AND THE PEOPLE OF SKIDEGATE / WARS BETWEEN THE PEOPLES OF SKIDEGATE AND KLOO; lines 18638-18756 confidence: high
As the Town-of-Djī′gua people flee, Tā′-iłgwai tells the wounded Skî′lg̣atgwᴀns to sit by a tree in the woods while he borrows a canoe at Cumshewa and returns for him.
Tā′-iłgwai promises to get a canoe and return for the wounded Skî′lg̣atgwᴀns, but the group later attacks him for not doing as promised.
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