Fools Crow Book Report

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In not only Pikuni culture but many others, people are challenged and pushed to become themselves, and the book Fools Crow demonstrates it perfectly. The main character White Man’s Dog or Fools Crow is faced with many situations in which he could prove himself. He is not the only one of the Pikuni people that is coming of age. Along with him he has Red Paint, Fast Horse, Heavy Shield Woman, And Yellow Kidney that experience some sort of coming to age along with White Man’s Dog. White Man’s Dog at the beginning of the book is invited to go on a horse stealing raid with the Pikuni people to take back what the Crows, a rival clan to the Pikuni, had taken earlier the year. All of the men on the raid party had known that White Man’s Dog had very bad luck and some didn’t understand why he was joining them. Yellow Kidney, the leader of the raid, had only brought him along to care for the other non-buffalo runner horses.During the journey the people on the raid use White Man’s Dog as a chef and an errand runner, but as he completes these tasks he proves himself to Yellow Kidney just enough for him to let White Man’s Dog lead the smaller group on the horse raid while he Fast Horse, and Eagle Ribs steal Buffalo runners from the Crows. When they arrive at the Crows camp they start planning …show more content…

Fools Crow showed a great example of independence when he decided to not marry the woman his parents chose, but instead he wanted to marry Red Paint the daughter of Yellow Kidney and Heavy Shield Woman. He had spoke to Mik-api about the idea, but Mik-api warned him that Yellow Kidney could not provide for himself or his family anymore because of the accident during the raid. Fools Crow only heard approval and rushed home, he then had to muster up the courage to tell his parents he had chosen a different

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