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Native American Legends: Dore
Name: Dore
Tribal affiliation: Ioway,
Otoe
Alternate spellings: Doré
Pronunciation: doh-ray
Type: Hero twins
Related figures in other tribes: Lodge-Boy (Hidatsa),
Curtain-Boy (Crow),
Village-Boy (Ho-Chunk)
Dore is one of a pair of mythological twins known as the Twin Holy Boys. Dore was raised by his father
while his brother,
Wahredua,
grew up in the wilderness.
Dore Stories
Dore and Wahredua:
Iowa legends about the Twin Holy Brothers.
Dore and Wahredua:
Another story about the twin monster-slayers, narrated by two Otoe storytellers.
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