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Dreams

Fools Crow is a story of dreams, honor, loss and changes. It is a coming of age story that takes place amid hardships beyond anything the Pikunis have faced in the past. Dreams foreshadow and predict the difficulties to come. White Man's Dog has a dream of a white-faced girl, while Cold Maker visits Fast Horse in a dream. Both dreams warn that the group should not continue on to the raid on the Crows. Fast Horse tells his dream, but Yellow Kidney does not trust the dream. The meaning of White Man's Dog's dream does not become clear until it is fulfilled when Yellow Kidney finds himself in a lodge filled with bodies of those with the white-scab disease. This fateful raid changes lives forever. White Man's Dog returns home with honor, Fast Horse returns sullen and vexed, and Yellow Kidney finally returns home after a long absence without...
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