Westward Movement has always been part of the"glorious history"in American official narrative,but in Fools Crow by American Indian writer James Welch,this period of history is represented as the Empire's encroachment and seizure of the native land by violence.Welch draws a picture of the harmonious coexistence of the Native Americans and the land in the past,their contacts and conflicts with the white colonials,and a series of disastrous outcomes that follow,including the pandemic,the destruction of the environment,the coerce and massacre by the government armed force that finally drove them off their homeland.The Native Americans had been silenced in the official American history,but Welch,using historical fiction as a protest,rewrote this part of whitewashed land plunder from the perspective of the native people.Fools Crow has thus the political significance of historical revision.
James WelchFools CrowWestward MovementMarias Massacre
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