Fools Crow Paper

Why is there so much importance in the transition of child to adult in the tribe? In this book one of the major key things that Welch points out is that the Blackfeet put so much belief in this because that’s what separated them from like the cowards and shunned ones. Most of boys would take the war trail and try to get their honor down that road. Or they may try to become a medicine man also. When I read this book more I realized how much they like to tease and mock each other. If the boys were doing poorly they would tease them and call him names. But they had teasing clans also, the person’s mother was one clan and father was another. So the person was a clan from his mother and then he was a child of a clan from his father. On the fathers side he could tease his uncle’s kids and not his aunties or uncles.
This all made it difficult for some individuals to become a well-respected man. The women had to deal with this but not to the extreme as the dangers of the war trail. They basically had to worry about if they would marry and if they married a man who others listened to. Visions and having a powerful animal to help was very important as you see with Fools Crow which he didn’t have much luck when he was younger but that all changed when he’s presccdor helped by giving him some medicine. If one is unlucky with his animal then he might not be as successful as Fools Crow. You see how a man becomes well known from not being so boatful as what Fast Horse has done and it got him shunned and he was going in the right path of one day becoming to own the beaver medicine bundle and it all turned because he tried showing off.
The only time Fools Crow felt foolish and embarrassed was when he drank the white man water which made him do and say bad things. Exspaully on the night they returned and they had the naming ceremony for Fools Crow when he insulted Yellow Kidney by saying stuff like what Fast Horse had once said that led the crows in discovering Yellow