# The Great Spirit — American Indian Stories character guide

> The Great Spirit in American Indian Stories by Zitkála-Šá.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Great Spirit

**First appearance:** 0005-ii-the-legends

## Who they are

The supreme deity in Sioux spirituality, often invoked.

## Relationships

### [Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/american_indian_stories_se/characters/mother)

_psychological_

Mother has a deep spiritual connection to The Great Spirit, often seeking guidance or expressing reverence.

### [Blue-Star Woman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/american_indian_stories_se/characters/blue_star_woman)

_psychological_

Blue-Star Woman engages with The Great Spirit in a spiritual or contemplative manner, reflecting inner faith.

### [Tusee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/american_indian_stories_se/characters/tusee)

_psychological_

Tusee has a spiritual relationship with The Great Spirit, likely involving prayer or reverence.

### [Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/american_indian_stories_se/characters/mother)

_psychological_

Mother has a deep spiritual connection to The Great Spirit, often seeking guidance or expressing reverence.

### [Tusee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/american_indian_stories_se/characters/tusee)

_psychological_

Tusee has a spiritual relationship with The Great Spirit, likely involving prayer or reverence.

## In the story

### [The Coffee-Making](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/american_indian_stories_se/chapters/iv-the-coffee-making)

The narrator prays to the Great Spirit to restore Wiyaka-Napbina.

### [VII: The Big Red Apples](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/american_indian_stories_se/chapters/vii-the-big-red-apples)

The narrator prays to the Great Spirit to make her mother willing to let her go with the missionaries.

### [The Devil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/american_indian_stories_se/chapters/iv-the-devil)

Referenced as the supreme spirit against whom the white man's devil dares to array his forces.

### [Retrospection](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/american_indian_stories_se/chapters/iv-retrospection)

The narrator gave up her faith in the Great Spirit for the white man's papers, contributing to her spiritual despair.

### [Why I Am a Pagan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/american_indian_stories_se/chapters/why-i-am-a-pagan)

The narrator hears the voice of the Great Spirit in nature and feels the divine presence in the phenomenal universe.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/american_indian_stories_se/chapters/iii)

Referenced by the medicine-man as the one the narrator has proven false to.

### [A Dream of Her Grandfather](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/american_indian_stories_se/chapters/a-dream-of-her-grandfather)

Referenced indirectly through the grandfather's role as a medicine man and the spiritual vision.

### [The Widespread Enigma Concerning Blue-Star Woman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/american_indian_stories_se/chapters/the-widespread-enigma-concerning-blue-star-woman)

Referenced by Blue-Star Woman as a witness in the simple, understandable ways of her people, contrasted with the complexity of white man's law.

## Links

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