Sunday, June 12, 2011

Fools Crow Quiz Ch 30- 33

1.Who does Fast Horse return to the Lone Eaters? (30)

2. What does Fools Crow say woman don't do so easily? (31)

3. In the place Fools Crow is at, what does not happen their? (31)

4. Why does Fools Crow think he was brought to this place? (31)

5. What does Rides at the Door have to do with Kills CLose to the Lake, and Running Fisher? (32)

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Chapter 30

Chapter 30:

"He had returned Yellow Kidney."




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Chapter 29

Chapter 29:

"I will pray for you. my husband, but you must promise me that you will return. You must promise me!"




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Chapters 28

Chapter 28:




blackfeet tribal council with government Indian agency about 1900


"All the men's societies had been represented"











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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Chapter 27 summary

In Chapter 27, Fast Horse is traveling with Owl Child and his Gang. They find a war lodge set up and Fast Horse decides to go check it out. He sees a Pikuni man laying on his side. The man has a braid wrapped with otter. He looks and see the man has no fingers and realizes he has found Yellow Kidney dead. Fast Horse then reflects on how he killed him.

Chapter 26 Summary

In Chapter 26 of Fools Crow by James Welch Pretty on Top comes with a Napikwan to warn the Lone Eaters about the dangerous small pox. He explains to them that they must turn away all visitors that come, until they have been properly vaccinated with the "juice." They discuss what to do if there relatives show up, and whether or not to turn them away. They think that maybe they should move and join a different group until cold maker goes away. They decide that maybe together they can come up with a solution.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Chapter 24+25 Questions

1. The Pikuni Chiefs are going to meet the Napikwans, to take about a new treaty.

2.Rides at the Door is unhappy because this would be the last of the friendly meetings with the Napikwans.

3.Heavy Runner's supports the Napikwans and this clouds his judgement on what is right for the Pikunis

4.Heavy Runner learned to write his name with a stick that squirted black juice.

5.Heavy Runner begins to worry because they weren't greeted and the Napikwans weren't ready for them.

6.Long Teeth was a white many faces man who had come to camp with the lone eaters.

7. A table is described as sqare platforms with legs.

8.Heavy Runner wants sugar with his coffee.

9. The Grandfather is the leader of the Napikwans

10. The Napikwans are disappointed because the Pikunis major chiefs had chose not to attend.

11.Sully's predicament is that he is going to have to propose the treaty with the chiefs that showed up, he also knows that the treaty is going to punish the blackfoot severly.

12. The three points of the meeting are first the arrest of Owl Child, they have to return all stolen Napikwan horse, and all killing will cease and their will be peace.

13.The Pikunis respond to sullys demands by agreeing to try and meet all demands, and kill Owl Child.

14.Sully says that they were not succuessful in engaging the other Pikuni chiefs because if they had shown up they might have avoided a conflict that can only go bad for your people. This ironic because the chiefs are vital to saving the blackfoot but they were all drunk and couldn't make it to the meeting.

15.Heavy Runner and the others request to sign a peace of paper for the treaty.

Chapter 25

  1. The character at the beginning of this chapter is "overwhelmed by this country that his companions took for granted," and he thinks that life is "destined to go on forever." Although we don't know his name we know that he was a miner from Atlanta, Georgia who is headed to the Montana Territory to go mine there to find gold.
  2. Fast Horse ambushed some of the Napikwans with Owl child and his gang and Fast Horse took their many-shots gun and the other weapons.
  3. Owl Child and his followers ambushed the Napikwan wagons. They took the items that they needed.
  4. Fast Horse is concerned because they struck too close to their people's camps this time.
  5. Owl Child is different because usually he would mock Fast Horse for saying that but this time he agrees with Fast Horse. He is fearing the Napikwans will blame Mountain Chief instead.
  6. At the end of the chapter, Fast Horse thinks Owl Child's days are numbered, but he doesn't know why it is.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Chapter 22 Questions

1. Mik-Api's Wife was part of the Black Paints Tribe and she died two years after they had been married.

2.Mik-Api knew he wouldn't marry again by the time he was of 35 winters because he knew that nobody would marry him because people feared his powers.

3.Red Paint intended to surprise her father Yellow Kidney that she was pregnant.

4.Red Paint wanted her father to name the baby.

5.The visitor that told Mik-Api that Fools Crow had went to find Fast Horse was Raven.

6.Mik-Api predicts that the Napikwans are going to attack before the many-drums moon.

7.Red Paint is afraid for the future of her family and her people, of Fools Crow and herself.

8. Joe Kipp thinks the world of the Pikunis, that they are some horse-takers, and that either way they are going to lose in the end.

9.Three Bears and the others decide that they will wait for the other groups to get Joe Kipps message and then Rides at the Door will represent the Lone Eaters at the seizer.

10.The White Man's Water make the men and woman make bad decisions and act unrationally. The woman are starting to drink it and are becoming "ugly".

1. One Spot gets attacked by a rabid wolf and becomes very sick and hurt.

2.The Wolf is rabid.

3.Fools Crow washes One Spot off and wraps him tightly up and burns grasses. He does this like Mik-Api taught him because Mik-Api is away.

4.One Spot ends up calming down and eventually relaxes.

Chapter 21 Questions

1. Yellow Kidney remembers the story of Seco-Mo- Muckon and the firehorn.

2. The moral of the story is the indignation over Seco- Mo- Muckon treachery because after he lied, he died.

3. Yellow kidney changes while staying in the war lodge because he now feels like he can return home to his family, and can do more with his knubs.

4. The two riders decided to go the war lodge in the pines so they could rest because their was hardtack and jerky and coffee.

5.The events that are motivating the rider to want to kill an Indian are the death of Charles Ransom and the rape of his wife.

6.Yellow Kidneys new plan is to go to Cutthroat country, take some horses, and then return to his family.

7.Yellow Kidney wants to name his grandson Yellow Calf.

8.The death scene of Yellow Kidney, was brutal. The slug went through him and the second and third shots were meaningless because his heart had already exploded and there was splatter all over the backrest. Yellow Kidney lay dead on his side with a long otter-wrapped braid flung across his open eyes.

9.The son of the rider responds to the death of Yellow Kidney was by vomiting up the pieces of the hardtack that he had chewed before.

Fools Crow:Reading Questions Ch.20 and 21

1. The dog Fools Crow finds a black and white dog, his shoulder crushed and matted. Most of his tongue was gone and he had cuts hanging from his open belly. Most his tail was eaten away.

2. Fools Crow finds white jagged objects, Napikwan clothes, a bed, eating platform, seats, and large wooden objects.

3. The round shiny things are plates.

4. Fools Crow is imagining ghosts of Napikwans, ghost of the dog, and ghosts of the horses.

5. Fools Crow teaches One Spot and Good Young Man how to select the right wood for their bows and arrows.

6. They had to cut the wood frames and stretch the rawhide and sew it over them. Then they threw the saddle in the river and caught it, and flung it over a dry-meat rack.

7. The only real memories that Yellow Kidney had were of the day and nights in the Spotted Horse camp, waiting, wishing to die.

8. Yellow Kidney leaves because he is unhappy and wants to relieve the tribe of his burden. He goes to the camp of the Spotted Horse People.

9. Owls Child regards Fools crow as a "friend" to Fast Horse. He teases that he is a member of the Lone Eaters and does womans work.

10. In the encounter between Fools Crow and Fast Horse they could tell they are no longer friends and lead completely different lives.

11. Fast Horse tells Fools crow he should tell Boss Ribs that he couldn't find him.

12. Fast Horse says he became hateful because Cold Maker betrayed him and he didn't become powerful like he was promised.



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