In this novella-length fable, Barry Lopez, the best selling author of Arctic Dreams and Of Wolves and Men, returns to his abiding concerns---our spiritual relationship to the landscape, respect for traditions different from our own, and our human obligations to one another. The text resonates with cultural values like gift exchange and courtesy toward the land that are preserved in many Native American communities today.

Tom Pohrt's paintings, based on indigenous clothing and artifacts of the northern plains and charged with otherworldly realism, not only make this marvelous quest come alive but also powerfully amplify its message.

What Crow and Weasel gain on this journey, and what they share with us, is a sense of what is worth doing in life. And, as we recognize in each of them the first trains of wisdom and tolerance, we find in Crow and Weasel an allegory of hope.