![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He marries into a family whose patriarch, Yellow Kidney, has survived a terrible ordeal at the instigating hands of a few rogue Napikwans-whites and it is to revenge this that some of the Lone Eaters (not Fools Crow) turn rogue themselves. And with the name come the rights and responsibilities of an important member of the tribe. The central character is a young, at first hardly-brave brave named White Man's Dog-who, after taking part in a daring horse-robbery raid against a rival tribe, is given the honor of a new, stronger name: Fools Crow. He focuses here on a tribe of Blackfeet Indians in Montana after the Civil War-the Lone Eaters-and how misunderstanding, venality, internal dissension, and, ultimately, physical plague wipe them out utterly. Like Larry McMurtry with Lonesome Dove, Welch has gone back into history to suggest the foundations of his previous fiction (The Death of Jim Loney, Winter in the Blood) and its world of the modern deracinated American Indian. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |