There is a vast difference between the two societies, the Native American Society and the White Society. It was termed as a result of both America’s domestic turbulence and also a direct influence of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution. In the mentioned chapter, we learn about the “Red Scare” and the eventual public reactions to the wave of labor strikes throughout America. The novel is said to be a major contribution to the sphere of Native American literature. The North American native culture is depicted in the novel beautifully, mainly the ceremonialism of the culture, along with their stern belief in supernatural powers, death along many other believes. It also focuses upon the issue that every decision taken by a person not only just affects the person but also goes on to affect his whole environment. Basically, if we look through the novel critically we will see that the novel deals with the question of choices and decisions that affect human lives as a whole.

The story actually deals with the subsequent development of the main character in the course of the novel and it is also a historical document as some historical events. The Crows cut his fingers as a punishment for his crime. He was caught afterward and shot in his thigh. He then had sex with the girl before realizing that the girl and her other companions were suffering from smallpox. One of the raiders, Yellow Kidney, got in front of the searching party and he hid beneath the robes of a girl, who was naked and feverish. The Crows tried to find out the intruders. Though he was initially scared, he put on a brave face and completed the job successfully, and even killed a scout who was trying to raise an alarm. He is appointed as the leader of a group of men who are going to steal a herd of horses from the Crow tribes.

The central character of the novel, White Man’s Dog is portrayed as an inferior and weak character at the beginning of the novel. The novel is set in the year 1870 and it depicts the lives of the Blackfeet people. Fool’s Crow is a novel by James Welch, and it has won several awards like the American Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize when it was published in the year 1986.

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