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Plenty Coups Chief Of The Crows Summary

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The Life of Pretty Shield and Plenty Coups The lives of the Crow Indians were long a mysterious and little known area of information. When Pretty Shield was written in 1932 it gave greatly needed insight into the life of Native American women which had not been previously researched. However, Pretty Shield though it is a valuable source of information is not complete without its counterpart, a novel known as Plenty Coups Chief of the Crows which was written several years before. Frank Linderman wrote Plenty Coups Chief of the Crows to understand life from the perspective of a Crow chief. It begins by introducing both Plenty Coups, Coyote runs, and Braided Scalp Lock. Three of the elder men in the crow tribe who are all well into their eighties. Plenty Coups commences his story with many descriptions of the Crow lifestyle. His early life is full of play, but it also prepares him for life as an adult. …show more content…

Age, to the Indian, is a warrant of experience and wisdom and both Plenty Coups and Pretty Shield fit this mold. They also both maintain a frustrated attitude to the actions and mentality of the younger generation. Plenty Coups for example, states that, “Boys do not work today as we did. They do not appear to care if their bodies are strong"(Plenty Coups, 90). In addition, both Plenty Coups and Pretty Shield believe that young people marrying whomsoever they choose has led to deformities in children which they both claim never happened when they were young. Plenty Coups elaborates, claiming that in large part this is a result of the abandonment of counting coups. He declares that counting coups guaranteed only the strong had children because they had either proven their strength through action or living to the age of twenty-five. Furthermore, Pretty Shield and Plenty Coups are not the uninformed ‘stoic’ Indians that western society has stereotyped them as. They are instead natural and love to

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