Part 5, Chapters 34-36 Summary

The white scab disease spreads fast and takes its toll. Fools Crow arrives in camp the night of the first death and busies himself with purifying sessions and other medicinal duties. He delivers fresh herbs to Boss Ribs, but when he enters the lodge the man sits with the Beaver Medicine bundle's contents scattered, and his six-year-old daughter dies. The sickness hits closer—Red Paints brothers come down with it and the older one dies. Red Paint thinks now of the son within her.

The thirteenth morning after the sickness breaks out, Fools Crow walks with his father through the camp. Three Bears has died. Dead are taken from the camp and five new cases erupt. The healthy men must hunt or the people will starve. While hunting, Fools Crow spots survivors, some of them children, in the...