Reception
In addition to gaining several awards, Fools Crow cemented Welch's writing credentials. Wallace Stegner called it "a major contribution to Native American literature." The poet Lowell Jaeger called the novel "rare and wonderful," because it portrayed Native American peoples as complex, in comparison to the stereotypes of Natives as "noble savages" or the bloodthirsty villains who "shot flaming arrows into Conestogas." Dee Brown (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee) said Fools Crow may be "…the closest we will ever come in literature to an understanding of what life was like for a western Indian."
Read more about this topic: Fools Crow
Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)