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."
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