the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era defined by racial segregation in the South and paternalistic policies for Indians throughout the nation

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days

extended sequences

Every one must grapple with how to make a life that acknowledges "Sa ah Naaghai Bik eh Hozh""o""o""n

with more than one hundred tales from fifty-five tribes

Fools Crow creation stories the Lumbee crafted and maintainedThe year is 1870. Located in the Two Medicine Territory of northwestern Montana is the camp of the Lone Eaters, a small band of Blackfeet Indians. Their life consists of a timeless round of activity, deeply rooted in the land and the seasons and in a reverence for the customs handed down from the Long Ago People. But the ever increasing presence of the Napikwans white men threatens this existence. Fools Crow, a young warrior and medicine man of great