Vocabulary
This is a word for loose stones.
What is scree?
This is the legislative branch of government made up of the Senate and House.
What is congress?
This is the author of Fools Crow.
Indigenous people in the US thought of this item differently that European settlers as they did not believe in its ownership.
What is land?
This is the state in which Fools Crow is set.
Where is Montana?
This is a red color.
What is vermilion?
If passed, this type of legislation becomes a law.
What is a bill?
This is the band of Pikuni Blackfeet that is featured in the story.
Who are the Lone Eaters?
This is the land bridge that connected Asia to what is now Alaska during a period of glaciation.
What is Beringia?
This character is tortured, gets smallox, and is eventually killed by a white settler; he goes missing after the Crow raid at the start of Fools Crow.
Who is Yellow Kidney?
This word defines a person who is asking for something from someone more powerful.
What is a supplicant?
This is a league or alliance of groups or nations. The most powerful one was the Iroquois.
What is a confederacy?
This character is married to Fools Crow's dad and has an affair with his brother.
Who is Kills-close-to-the-lake?
These mummies, discovered in South America, are older than the mummies of Egypt.
What are the Chinchorro mummies?
This phrase is used to describe Spanish cruelty toward Native Americans in what is now the US during their early settlement.
What is the Black Legend?
This is part of a horse's leg.
What is a fetlock?
This is the student who runs a student congress.
This character leads a gang of Pikuni who kill and harass Napikwan that are settling near the Pikuni land.
Who is Owl Child?
This is the name of frozen ancient remains of a human discovered near the Columbia River in Washington state.
Who is the Kennwick Man?
The Guale Indians destroyed many of these because of the Spanish repression of native religion.
What are missions?
This is a rawhide container.
What is a parfleche?
This is the format in which a student congress is run; it is made up of motions, precedence, and recency.
What is parliamentary procedure?
This character is mauled by a rabid wolf.
Who is One Spot?
This explorer landed in Florida but was killed soon after by a poison arrow.
Who is De Leon?
Fools Crow meets this woman in an other-worldy place, and she gives him a skin that foretells the future.
Who is Feather Woman?