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Native American Legends: Charred Body
Name: Charred Body
Alternate spellings: Charred-Body
Tribal affiliation: Hidatsa,
Crow
Native names: Iixua Araxaash, Alapooshish, Balapooshe
Type: Native heroes
Charred Body is a Hidatsa hero who led the people to the earth from their original home in the sky.
However, he also introduced
murder to the world by killing a woman who insulted him. Charred Body was the uncle of the sacred twins
Lodge-Boy and
Thrown-Away.
In some Crow legends his name is given as the father of the sacred twins, without the Hidatsa story
of migration and murder.
Charred Body Stories
Charred Body and First Creator:
Hidatsa myth about Charred Body, the Great Migration, and the origin of murder.
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