Chapter 8 summary

In Chapter 8 Yellow Kidney returns to the lone eaters and tells his story of how he got captured by the Crows and they chopped off all his fingers. He tells of his whole journey through the camp and how he almost escaped but Fast Horse was being loud. He tells of hiding in a tipi with young girls who all had white scabs disease. He got pleasure from one of the girls and then realized she too had this disease. He was sent off after they chopped his fingers off. He was sure he was going to die but ended up making it to a camp where the people cared for him. Yellow Kid told this whole story to the camp. After they decided to feast and put off going to the trading camps. They also decided that they had to banish Fast Horse before Yellow Kidney had a chance to get revenge.