Fools Crow

The next day, Fools Crow tells Red Paint that Nitsokan, the dream helper, has instructed him to make a journey as “a beggar” without food or fine possessions (319). Fools Crow travels on horseback for three days and three nights without eating or sleep until he reaches a small Napikwan “dwelling made of logs and mud” (324). Before entering the cabin, Fools Crow removes his weapons so that he can enter the “enemy lodge” as a beggar (324). When he approaches the lodge, a figure welcomes him into the cabin where Fools Crow lies down on a Napikwan “sleeping platform” covered by a quilt (325). While asleep, he dreams of Wolverine, who runs away from him into a “narrow crevice” (328). Fools Crow crawls after him through the tunnel singing the song that Wolverine taught him. When he gets out of the tunnel, the wolverine is nowhere to be found. He walks for a long time and then goes for a swim in a river before falling asleep on the bank. A woman in a “white doeskin stress” and the black-and-white dog appear while he is sleeping. When Fools Crow wakes up, he spies the woman in white standing nearby.

Two young Lone Eater riders spy a travois in the distance while they are guarding the horse herd. Calf Looking tells Good Grass Bull to go get some men to help them defend the herd in case enemies are approaching. The travois is being pulled by Fast Horse, who has left Owl Child after finding Yellow Kidney and is bringing the body back to the Lone Eaters camp. He cannot bring himself to ask his people to forgive him and allow him to return but he also no longer has the heart to continue with Owl Child and his men. Fast Horse leaves the body near the camp and gallops away to “the whiskey forts in the north” where there are many men like him living on their own (334).