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Books : Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction)In association with Amazon.comby: James Welch  List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.20 You Save: $4.80 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780140089370 ISBN: 0140089373 Label: Penguin (Non-Classics) Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: November 03, 1987 Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics) Sales Rank: 8605 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation. "A major contibution to Native American literature."--Wallace Stegner. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Happiness walks with sadnessFools' Crow The Pikunis must deal with the coming of the Napikwans (the whites). At first things go fairly well, a bit exciting for the bands as trade picks up at the forts, they live by treaty and live in relative peace for many years, but the Napikwans gradually move their whitehorns (cattle) into all of what is now Montana stretched up to the Back bone of the World (the Rocky Mountains) and eventually trickle north of the Medicine Line (Canada and U.S. Border). Fools ... Read More Rating: - Exquisitely writtenFools Crow is an historical novel of the European invasion from a Native perspective. This tragedy is told through prose so hauntingly beautiful, it will stay with you for a long time to come. An exceptional book. Rating: - a real taste of native plains lifeI've read a wide range of books on native americans but none have struck me, or stuck with me, like Fools Crow. This is a masterwork. It gives one the sense of living life on the high plains of what is now Montana in the years just before and then during the westward expansion of the Europeans. The gift of Welsh is his ability to transport you there, make you feel it, live and breathe it, through the glorious days before, the uncertain days leading up to, and the demoralizing days following the ... Read More Rating: - Just AmazingI finished this book, put it down, picked it up, and read it again. The historically inevitable ending (for those who know history) does nothing to detract from Welch's ability to keep you hanging on every word, right up to the the end. The seamless integration of the physical and spiritual planes provides a refreshing view into not just Native American life, but life in general. I just can't believe I didn't discover this book sooner. Rating: - FOOLSCROWBeing an enrolled Native-American myself, and having a good understanding of the history of Native/Anglo encounters, I recommend this book highly as an accurate description of life on the plains during the last days of the Blackfeet... brilliant! Browse for similar items by category:
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