He also falls in love with Yellow Kidney’s daughter, Red Paint, whom he eventually marries.
White Man’s Dog begins to receive more respect and attention from the community and becomes the apprentice of the medicine man, Mik-api. By the time they reach the Crow camps, their leader, Yellow Kidney, has become skeptical of Fast Horse and fears that his arrogance and desire for personal glory will jeopardize the raid at the same time, he has been pleasantly surprised by the levelheadedness shown by White Man’s Dog, whom he only allowed to come on the raid because of respect for Rides-at-the-door.Īlthough the men succeed in taking many horses on the raid, Yellow Kidney fails to rejoin the group, and the men return to the Lone Eaters camp without him. On the journey to the Crow camps, Fast Horse tells the party that he has dreamed that Cold Maker, the wind from the north, has told them that he will make their raid successful if the men remove rocks from an ice spring. Before departing on the journey, he visits the Lone Eaters’ healer, Mik-api, who performs a ceremony meant to banish White Man’s Dog’s bad luck. When his friend Fast Horse invites him to take part in a raid to steal horses from the Pikuni’s enemies, the Crows, who are led by the warrior Yellow Kidney, White Man’s Dog is eager for the chance to prove himself but worries that his unluckiness will bring misfortune on himself and the raid. At the beginning of the novel, Fools Crow–then known as White Man’s Dog–has reached eighteen winters of age without having established himself as an important man in his community.
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