Analytical Response: Yellow Kidney And Fast Horse

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Fools Crow Creative response Section 1 We travel for many nights to raid the Crow tribe. We are going to be prepared to jibe. Our young ones are one with the horses. After they gather and take the horses they will feel no remorses. They mantle them up and all the horses take flight. The colt tries to catch its mother in the moonlight. A Crow youth rider tries to head off the colt. The mother stops and the colt meets ending his bolt. The youth crow stops. I pull my knife and ride non-stop. The youth leaped from his horse to the ground. I leapt on him and stabbed him. Four times was enough to end him. We receded away from Crow territory. Yellow Kidney and Fast Horse did not flee. Fast Horse was taken by Cold Maker. He must fulfill his promise to Cold Maker. Yellow Kidney is still missing. He reappears missing four fingers. He raped a sick crow girl. Analytical Response Part 1 During the First seminar we talked about many points within the story that were compelling or worth analyzing. In the first section of reading White Man's Dog and his war party raided the crow tribe for their horses. Both Yellow Kidney and Fast Horse …show more content…

This really shows how much spiritual events can influence the real world. The Raven a spiritual animal made the Napikwan dream about Red Paint. After the dream he went out in search of Red Paint. This was the way that he was tricked by Fools Crow and the Raven. He was shot in the center of his headdress by Fools Crow as he looked at Red Paint. The most significant part of this part of this event is just how seriously dreams are taken. They live very spiritually, even earlier in the book when Fast Horse has a dream about Cold Maker wanting two robes for his daughters. Another Example is when fools crow had a dream about the girls in the robes. The second section really had some interesting points brought up in the

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