Owl Child rides into the village with two other men, driving a herd of horses stolen from white ranchers. Three Bears warns Owl Child that making trouble with the whites will lead to conflict; if he and his men continue to kill and steal from the Napikwans, “the seizers will kill us, and the Pikuni people will be as the shadows on the land” (62). Three Bears refuses to invite them to stay in the camp because he does not wish to encourage their violence. Owl Child leaves in anger but encourages Fast Horse to consider joining him.

White Man’s Dog sits with Mik-api and watches Yellow Kidney’s daughter, Red Paint, and feels himself growing attracted to her. Mik-api sees White Man’s Dog watching Red Paint and observes that she is becoming an attractive woman. 

Fast Horse sits in his father’s lodge contemplating the Beaver Medicine bundle, which his father, Boss Ribs, plans to pass down to him when he is “old enough, and patient enough, to learn all the songs and rituals associated with the objects in the bundle” (71).