Fools Crow

English language

Published Aug. 27, 1987

ISBN:
978-0-14-008937-0
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Fools Crow is a 1986 novel written by Native American author James Welch. Set in Montana shortly after the Civil War, this novel tells of White Man's Dog (later known as Fools Crow), a young Blackfeet Indian on the verge of manhood, and his band, known as the Lone Eaters. The invasion of white society threatens to change their traditional way of life, and they must choose to fight or assimilate. The story is a portrait of a culture under pressure from colonization. The story culminates with the historic Marias Massacre of 1870, in which the U.S. Cavalry killed a friendly band of Blackfeet, consisting mostly of non-combatants.

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I read this in graduate school, shortly after I left my work teaching public school. I remember liking it, even wrote a paper on it. However, I don't recall as much of it now. May have to reread it someday. I read it for a course in Native American literature, which was one of the first courses I took for my masters. Out of the list of books in that class, this was one of the better ones.

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