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Narkinawa John Cooper’s Peer Relationships with the Indians

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4.3.1.3 Narkinawa

After a-month journey, John Cooper walks away from the Ayuhwa Sioux village. He meets with a band of Skidi Pawnee Indians who suddenly encircle his camp. The Skidi Pawnee are amazed by the wampum belt John Cooper wears. They can read that John Cooper is a mighty hunter who has slain a great black bear. Thus, they take him to Peltalaro, the tribal chief of Skidi Pawnee. After successfully completing the purification tests from Skidi Pawnee, John Cooper is free to make friends with any Skidi Pawnee brave. Peltalaro instructs Narkinawa to teach him Caddo tongue, Skidi Pawnee’s language, and the meaning of their gods pp. 214-234. Hence, the peer relationship between John Cooper and Narkinawa begins. Narkinawa acts as John Cooper’s language instructor of Caddo tongue by firstly mentioning all the words in Ayuhwa that John Cooper has already mastered the most and then he will convert them into Caddo tongue. Here John Cooper has to impose all what he speaks so that he will soon master them very well. Both of them do the process of teaching and learning enthusiastically and the John Cooper, with his good capacity of learning a language, needs very short of time to be adapted with their language p. 233. Their sharing knowledge and ideas influences the relationship even stronger between each other. Aside teaching Caddo language, Narkinawa figures himself as the instructor who introduces John Cooper with the gods of Skidi Pawnee. He explains the meaning of “Mother Corn”, “Tirawa”, “Morning Star”, “Evening Star” and the other minor gods of Skidi Pawnee. John Cooper can comprehend the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 98 lessons quickly. As their sharing ideas lasts, John Cooper is astonished by the meaning of “Human Sacrifice”. John Cooper, despite the fact that Narkinawa has explained him the means of worshiping the Morning Star, cannot rationally accept this term afterwards. John Cooper shook his head but remained silent. “The enormity of this religious act struck at his nature, yet he knew that it would be both tactless and dangerous to denounce it” p. 234. John Cooper appreciates it as the nature of his friend’s belief, even though both of theirs are different. He also realizes that it will cause dispute and irritation if he rebukes what his peer expresses about his beliefs. As a responsive act of what Narkinawa has done to him, John Cooper shares his hunting with and teach him how to use and reload ‘Long Girl’, his rifle. This generates their mutual relationship into the higher step of appreciating other’s feeling and nature.

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