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The daughter of Yellow Kidney and Heavy Shield Woman, and the eventual wife of Fools Crow. She is also the sister of One Spot and Good Young Man. Red Paint is young, beautiful, and madly in love with Fools Crow. The two first notice each other when Fools Crow begins hunting for her family after Yellow Kidney’s disappearance during the horse raid against the Crows. After Yellow Kidney’s return, Mik-api negotiates their marriage on Fools Crow’s behalf. Red Paint is quiet and reserved, and she tirelessly serves her husband. She longs for the quiet seclusion of the Backbone, an isolated mountain range where she and Fools Crow can pick chokecherries and fish for “slippery swimmers.” Red Paint is devastated when her father is returned to camp dead after deserting his family, and she is further broken when her brother, Good Young Man, dies during the outbreak of white-scabs disease. Despite this, she is among the procession of Pikunis who leave the Lone Eaters’ camp and head north at the end of the novel, and with their infant son, Sleep-bringer, Red Paint and Fools Crow continue the Pikuni way of life.
Red Paint Quotes in Fools Crow
The Fools Crow quotes below are all either spoken by Red Paint or refer to Red Paint. 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 11
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In six days White Man’s Dog would ride with the war party against the Crows. As she rubbed her neck and looked off to the Sweet Grass Hills, she felt again the dread that came whenever she allowed herself to think. She had tried to stay busy, but even a momentary lapse in concentration allowed that dreaded thought to steal through her whole body. She knew that war parties were part of a man’s life and she knew that she should be proud that White Man’s Dog had been selected to count coup on behalf of her father, Yellow Kidney. But it was because of Yellow Kidney that she felt so fearful.
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Chapter 14
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[Red Paint] sat back on her heels and watched the slippery swimmer that had stationed himself in an eddy behind a yellow rock. […] She had been tempted for three days now to catch him and taste his flesh. Her own people scorned those who ate the underwater swimmers, but she had a cousin who had married into the Fish Eaters band of the Siksikas, and he had become fond of the silver creatures. […] Today she would make a bone hook. She would catch him for Fools Crow. In the solitude of the Backbone they would taste the flesh of this swimmer together.
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Red Paint Quotes in Fools Crow
The Fools Crow quotes below are all either spoken by Red Paint or refer to Red Paint. 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 11
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In six days White Man’s Dog would ride with the war party against the Crows. As she rubbed her neck and looked off to the Sweet Grass Hills, she felt again the dread that came whenever she allowed herself to think. She had tried to stay busy, but even a momentary lapse in concentration allowed that dreaded thought to steal through her whole body. She knew that war parties were part of a man’s life and she knew that she should be proud that White Man’s Dog had been selected to count coup on behalf of her father, Yellow Kidney. But it was because of Yellow Kidney that she felt so fearful.
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Chapter 14
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[Red Paint] sat back on her heels and watched the slippery swimmer that had stationed himself in an eddy behind a yellow rock. […] She had been tempted for three days now to catch him and taste his flesh. Her own people scorned those who ate the underwater swimmers, but she had a cousin who had married into the Fish Eaters band of the Siksikas, and he had become fond of the silver creatures. […] Today she would make a bone hook. She would catch him for Fools Crow. In the solitude of the Backbone they would taste the flesh of this swimmer together.
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