Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction) - Softcover

Welch, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140089373 ISBN 13: 9780140089370

Publisher: Penguin, 1987

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

James Welch is the author of the novels Winter in the Blood, Fools Crow, for which he received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an American Book Award, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, The Indian Lawyer, The Death of Jim Lonely, and most recently, Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians. He attended schools on the Blackfeet and Fort Belknap reservations in Montana, and he graduated from the University of Montana, where he studied writing with the late Richard Hugo. Until recently, he served on the Montana State Board of Pardons. He lives in Missoula with his wife, Lois.

Synopsis:

In the Two Medicine territory of Montana, the Pikuni Indians are forced to choose between fighting a futile war or accepting a humiliating surrender, as the encroaching numbers of whites threaten their very existence.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0140089373
• ISBN 13: 9780140089370
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400