Analytical Response: Yellow Kidney And Fast Horse

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

disappear during the raid but eventually find their way back. If you look at how the two men that disappeared were two men that were somewhat overconfident. Fast Horse was taken by cold maker. Cold Maker told fast horse in a dream that he wanted two robes for his daughters and Fast Horse promised he would get them. He did not get the robes, but he was warned and told to get them. Yellow Kidney raped a sick Crow women while on the raid. He had his fingers cut off for doing so. It really shows how becoming lucky can change very quickly. For White Man’s dog his luck is beginning to get better. He is really working hard to gain acceptance in his tribe from the other young men and women. He is going to be seen as a leader after his party returns home for his hard work on the raid. He does have a sense of guilt after they were done with the raid. He was the one that killed the innocent Crow youth.
Another big plot point that occurs is when Fast Horse moves over to Owl Childs Band. This is just the start of even more problems between Napikwans and Owl Childs Band they believed in the killing of them. Fast horse stated in the book “I myself have never liked the Napikwans, and I say to you now I would do rid this land of their presence. This signifies how Fast Horse is too confident in the ways in which he will kill innocent members of society. He was banished from the Pikunis so he went to stir up trouble over at Owl Childs Band.

Section 2 Creative Response
Dear Red Paint,
A lot has been going on in these recent times. I killed the Napikwan man as he came to you as he saw you in his dream. Raven went to the Napikwan while he slept and made the man dream about you. The Napikwan man was killing animals and not even taking them with him to eat. This is very wasteful and is not right you must eat what you kill. The Sunchief gave me the responsibility to kill the wasteful Napikwan. We used you as a trap which was very ideal for the situation. I have a sense of guilt for making you be the trap because we do not know how he interpreted this dream maybe he was searching for you because you might be his other half, or maybe he was an angry man shown by the way he killed animals and left them. He could have wanted to kill you, and looking back on this it was a very bad idea to bring you into it. I killed him with a perfect shot to his headdress right before he would have killed me and possibly you. I am just glad that it worked out as well as it did with no casualties to our side of people. From this point on I will let you know if create a set up like this. Did you see the man well you were in the woods? If you did were you scared of the man the way he looked at you? If you did see him, have you seen him around here before? This man deserved what happened to him, he had it coming. When you kill not even to provide for your family it is a problem. I am happy he is gone, I haven't killed many people before this other than the Crow youth during the raid. Both killing have turned out well to this point which I am very thankful for and I hope I do not have to kill anymore. Will you forgive me for the danger I put you in?
Sincerely,
Fools Crow
Section 2 analytical response
Once again in the second section another thing happens with Fast Horse. Fast Horse and his new band raid a homestead and Fast Horse gets shot. He comes back to the Pikunis for help Mik - Api and Fools Crow help him out. His father is very happy to see his son back, he wants him to stay for good because he is next in line for the Beaver Medicine Bundle. Instead Fast Horse is all ready to go after he is better, and leave for good to. It shows how much the Pikunis care for Fast Horse but he does not care enough to actually stay with his band that he grew up with and has been cared for his whole life. It also signifies how accepting the Pikunis really are in the fact that they do care for him and let him come back. A lot of other people even in modern day if you just abandon them, and come back just for temporary help. He is in a way just using the Pikunis to help his problems.
One of the biggest events from the second section was the killing of the Napikwan by Fools Crow.

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

seminar.

Section 3 Creative Response
Sturgis: My friendly Pikuni friends you must not have any interaction with the Napikwan people right now as they will expose you to smallpox which will kill many people if you are exposed. My wife has recently died from this.
Fools Crow: Why should we trust you and not interact?
Sturgis: Nobody says your band has to listen to me just be warned that if you do not bad things may happen to you and your people.
Fools Crow: Thanks for the warning.
Smoking Peace Pipe
Three Bears: I do not think we can trust this man.
Fools Crow: Why do you say this? Our people could die.
Mik - Api: Hold on just one second guys, I think we should trust the man. We do not want our people to get infected with smallpox and die. What point is their to lie about such a thing, nothing will come of it.
Meeting with General Sully
Sully: Not many of chiefs are attending this meeting, this will be pointless without more attendance.
Sully: I have a few things to bring up. Point One; I have a warrant for the arrest of Owl Child, Bear Chief, and Black Weasel for the killing of Malcolm Clark. Point Two; Livestock has been stolen from people around Montana and you will return them immediately. Point three; Many people have been killed miners, loggers, settlers, many have been scalped. This will cease this moment.
Sully: If we are going to consider peace with the Blackfeet these need to happen.
Fools Crow: We will kill Owl Child ourselves and we will return as many livestock as possible. We will stop killing civilians. We want peace just as much as you.

Section 3 Analytical Response
In the last section of reading many things occur that are significant. The most important was the meeting that took place with General Sully. This is important because there are so many different bands within the Blackfoot tribe. Some have different motives than the others. General sully is saying that the only way that they can have peace is to follow through with the three points he made in his meeting with the other chiefs. Not all of the bands behave the same, and it will be hard to find all the livestock stolen versus all the livestock previously owned. It will turn into a internal war within the Blackfoot bands with disagreement on his points.
Lastly another important point is when Sturgis comes into the Pikuni band and tells of how they should not have any interaction with the Napikwan. They all cannot even agree on whether or not to trust Sturgis, even when his wife died of Smallpox. There is really no reason not to believe him because they could all die of Smallpox if they ignore the tip. Smallpox later on killed many Natives, it was one of the diseases brought over from Europe by the settlers and it was a major killer to Natives. If I were Fools Crow I would believe it because they are not immune to it so it will kill them.

My Response to the book
I really enjoyed reading Fools Crow for the most part. It was significant in many ways. It was a book that you really had to think about while you read it, there were so many characters to remembers and places to remember.
First point I liked about Fools Crow was how it was how much detail was really in the book, from places to characters and character development. Many characters changed for good in the book and some changed for the bad. It was very descriptive in the ways that the author displayed the characters and landscapes. One of the most memorable parts was when Fools Crow killed the Napikwan and when he fired the shot right into the center of his headdress, this was a very descriptive way to show him being killed.
Next an important message in the book was how nothing is permanent in life and thing can slip or rise. For Fools Crow things got much better for him as the story progressed in the beginning he was nobody essentially. The other young men did not like him that much no girls liked him. He later on becomes the leader of the Pikunis with his bold moves on the raid of the Crow. He killed a youth so they would not alert the Crow Village. He also took care of Red Paint. It went the exact opposite for Fast Horse. Fast Horse began being very popular, but the leaders knew he was reckless. During the raid he disappears for a period of time. He is later banished and joins a new band, and becomes violent and wants to kill the Napikwans.
Overall this book was very good, it had times when it lost my attention with all the memorization required well reading this book. It did have a good message and the ending was ideal, it all turned out just perfect. I would definitely recommend this book to somebody looking for something that is different but still gives a good storyline.