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Mik-api
Yellow Kidney’s wife and mother to Red Paint, Good Young Man, and One Spot. When Yellow Kidney disappears during the horse raid on the Crows, Heavy Shield Woman pledges to take the vow of the Sacred Vow Woman at the summer ceremony in exchange for her husband’s safe return. He does return, and she successfully fulfills her vow, a role that ensures the health and prosperity of her people by way of her virtue; however, Heavy Shield Woman begins to question her role as Sacred Vow Woman, and by extension, she begins to question her virtue. A series of tragedies means that she has felt little peace since taking her vow, and she even considers renouncing her role. She ultimately remains in her role and is presumably killed in the outbreak of white-scabs disease.
Heavy Shield Woman Quotes in Fools Crow
The Fools Crow quotes below are all either spoken by Heavy Shield Woman or refer to Heavy Shield Woman. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6
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But [White Man’s Dog] killed many animals on his solitary hunts and he left many of them outside the lodge of Heavy Shield Woman. Sometimes he left a whole blackhorn there, for only the blackhorn could provide for all the needs of a family. Although the women possessed kettles and steel knives, they still preferred to make spoons and dippers out of the horns of the blackhorn. They used the hair of the head and heard to make braided halters and bridles and soft-padded saddles. They used the hooves to make rattles or glue, and the tails to swat flies. And they dressed the dehaired skins to make lodge covers and linings and clothes and winding cloths. Without the blackhorn, the Piknuis would be as sad as the little bigmouths who howled all night.
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Heavy Shield Woman Quotes in Fools Crow
The Fools Crow quotes below are all either spoken by Heavy Shield Woman or refer to Heavy Shield Woman. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 6
Quotes
But [White Man’s Dog] killed many animals on his solitary hunts and he left many of them outside the lodge of Heavy Shield Woman. Sometimes he left a whole blackhorn there, for only the blackhorn could provide for all the needs of a family. Although the women possessed kettles and steel knives, they still preferred to make spoons and dippers out of the horns of the blackhorn. They used the hair of the head and heard to make braided halters and bridles and soft-padded saddles. They used the hooves to make rattles or glue, and the tails to swat flies. And they dressed the dehaired skins to make lodge covers and linings and clothes and winding cloths. Without the blackhorn, the Piknuis would be as sad as the little bigmouths who howled all night.
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