Fools Crow

Name: Fools Crow
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: James Welch
ISBN: 9780593397121

Author: James Welch

Narrator: Darrell Dennis

Unabridged: 14 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 02/02/2021

Categories: Fiction, Indigenous, Cultural Fiction, Western

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.
Cover image courtesy of Walter McClintock Papers. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

About The Author

James Welch (1940 – 2003) was the author of the novels Winter in the Blood, The Death of Jim Loney, 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, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk. Welch also wrote a nonfiction book, Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians, and a work of poetry, Riding the Earthboy 40. He attended schools on the Blackfeet and Fort Belknap reservations in Montana, graduated from the University of Montana, where he studied writing with the late Richard Hugo, and served on the Montana State Board of Pardons. Thomas McGuane is the author of ten novels, most recently Driving on the Rim. He lives on a ranch in Montana.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sylvia on June 26, 2007

An amazing book that makes you realize just how much sympathetic, realistic, humanizing portraits of Native Americans are lacking in American fiction. This book tells the story of Fools Crow, a young Blackfoot warrior, and his village in the late 1800s as US soldiers are encroaching on their territo......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on March 17, 2013

The last several weeks I’ve spent picking up various books that have been forgotten on my bookshelf for some time now, only to put them down one after another having read only a few pages and becoming distracted. My life has felt so out of control lately that it’s been hard for me to even concentrat......more

Goodreads review by Shonna on March 11, 2008

Great story written from a Blackfoot Indian youth's point of view. As a Montanan, I can tell you that I know Native Americans who may speak English, but Welch has captured much of the style and cadence of their speach in this novel. In addition, he manages to tell the story in the style of a legend......more