A white man and heavy-singer-for-the-sick, presumably a doctor, for his own people. Sturgis marries a Pikuni woman who later dies of the white-scabs disease, and he visits the Lone Eaters’ camp with Pretty-on-top to tell them about the “juice” (that is, the vaccine) that can be injected into the body to prevent the disease.
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Sturgis Character Timeline in Fools Crow
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Chapter 26
...an outlying band named Pretty-on-top rides into the Lone Eaters’ camp with a Napikwan named Sturgis. Sturgis is a heavy-singer-for-the-sick among his own people, and the two bring news of a...
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Sturgis tells the Lone Eaters that the disease is quickly spreading through the bands, and even...
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The Lone Eaters are distrustful of Sturgis and Pretty-on-top, and suspicious of any Pikuni who takes on the Napikwans’ ways as he...
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Chapter 28
...unable to sleep. He thinks about the men’s conversation earlier in the evening, in which Sturgis had told them not to allow Pikunis from other bands to enter their lodges. The...
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