At first, I thought this reading Plains Warrior Narratives, was a myth story kind of like Selu but then I actually read the title. The reading took me a while to get a hang of what was happening and then after the first two pages it shifted into a different perspective. On page 120, the story is in the perspective of Three Legs, whom I presume is a young Hidatsa Indian tribe member. They are moving east following herds of buffalo and one night he receives his dream. He receives a dream that he will obtain a beautiful horse and scalp 4 enemy Indians (see page 121). His tale is told as his tribe just gotten out of the winter season and was hunting for meat. I do not know how a dream can be so specific in unfolding possible future events. I rarely …show more content…
Young Mountain I presume is also a young Hidatsa Indian and was best friends with Three Legs. On page 126, Goes First died due to a bullet went through his heart, but on page 122, in multiple lines that Bobtail Wolf had sang too many medicine songs for his brother which Three Legs and Black Shield tried to warn him, he did not. I think that the medicine song is an equivalent to a prayer. As a way to ask for protection and to keep safe, but when Bobtail kept saying a prayer over and over again, I just knew that something was going to happen to his brother, Goes First. It just screams ‘Goes First will die and or be injured really badly’. At the end, on page 126, Young Mountain’s death greatly effects Three Legs to the point that he cannot take pride into the victory that his men did nor the fact about the 4 scalped Sioux men. Crooked Arm’s dream came true too and it turned out to be Young Mountains. Two Belly also reminded Three Legs about that and told him that there could have been other opportunities to achieve his dream. I think there was a moral lesson in this narrative. On page 126, Two Belly tells that his dream and any elders are more truth than the young ones. I believe this means that listening to elder advice is sometimes wiser than just going for