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A heavy-singer-for-the-sick and Fast Horse’s father. Like Mik-api, Boss Ribs tends to the physical and spiritual needs of the band, and he is the keeper of the Beaver Medicine bundle, a bag of totems that represent the songs and prayers of the beaver—and the Pikuni people. The bundle is the most powerful medicine of all the Pikunis, and Boss Ribs plans to pass it on to his son. Fast Horse ultimately rejects the bundle and his father, and by the end of the novel, Boss Ribs and the Beaver Medicine bundle are rendered powerless in the face of the white-scabs disease.
Boss Ribs Quotes in Fools Crow
The Fools Crow quotes below are all either spoken by Boss Ribs or refer to Boss Ribs. 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 8
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But all that had changed now because Fast Horse had changed. He had become an outsider within his own band. He no longer sought the company of others, and they avoided him. The girls who had once looked so admiringly on him now averted their eyes when he passed. The young men considered him a source of bad medicine, and the older ones did not invite him for a smoke. Even his own father had begun to look upon him with doubt and regret. As for Fast Horse, the more he stared at the Beaver Medicine, the more it lost meaning for him. That would not be the way of his power. His power would be tangible and immediate.
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Boss Ribs Quotes in Fools Crow
The Fools Crow quotes below are all either spoken by Boss Ribs or refer to Boss Ribs. 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 8
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But all that had changed now because Fast Horse had changed. He had become an outsider within his own band. He no longer sought the company of others, and they avoided him. The girls who had once looked so admiringly on him now averted their eyes when he passed. The young men considered him a source of bad medicine, and the older ones did not invite him for a smoke. Even his own father had begun to look upon him with doubt and regret. As for Fast Horse, the more he stared at the Beaver Medicine, the more it lost meaning for him. That would not be the way of his power. His power would be tangible and immediate.
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