50 pages • 1 hour read
D'Arcy McnickleWind from an Enemy Sky
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
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Content Warning: This section addresses themes of racism, cultural erasure, and violence against Indigenous people.
Based on Adam Pell’s actions at the end of the novel regarding the statue and the medicine bundle, were his decisions driven more by his empathy for the Little Elk tribe or by his guilt over his role in the situation, and why?
Following the revelation of the Feather Boy bundle’s fate, why is it Bull rather than Louis who ultimately shoots Pell and Rafferty?
Doc Edwards says that if the members of the Little Elk tribe had followed Henry Jim’s lead rather than Bull’s, “they would have been suckered out of everything” (121). How does this tie into the novel’s ideas regarding cultural integrity? Is Edwards right? Why or why not?
