James Welch--poet, novelist, documentary scriptwriter, and historical essayist--has long been acknowledged as a major voice in the Native American Renaissance. His book of poems, Riding the Earthboy 40 (1971), and his first two novels--Winter in the Bloo...

It is generally accepted that the Native American Renaissance in literature started with N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn in 1968. James Welch's Winter in the Blood (1974) is the second major work of the renaissance, placing Welch as one of the earl...

Fools Crow by James Welch Of mixed Blackfeet and Gros Ventre ancestry, James Welch was born in 1940 in Browning, Montana, the tribal headquarters of the Blackfeet Indian Nation. Educated at the University of Minnesota, Northern Montana College, and the...

Fools Crow is a novel written by author James Welch. Set in Montana shortly after the Civil War, this novel tells of Fools Crow, a young Blackfoot Indian on the verge of manhood, and his tribe, known as the Lone Eaters. The invasion of white society...

One might have hoped that an additional fifteen years' maturity would have generated a book that reflected less of the Anglo, star-struck romanticism that colored Mails' earlier volume on Fools Crow. Such was not to be the case. Ward Churchill captures the sentiment...

In her study of Asian American cultural politics, Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe reminds us that the cultural institution of the novel performs a function in reconciling readers to the national social order. She points to the interruption of the novel form by immigrant writers,...

Essay discusses the book "Fool's Crow" by James Welch.