He tells of how he had entered the enemy camp and discovered a lodge of young, pale, naked girls when trying to hide from the enemies. "I had no choice but to try and hide so I crept over to the girl, put my hand over her mouth and crawled into the robe with her" (74). "I found her there between the legs and entered her--not without some difficulty, for she was only on the verge of becoming a woman (75). He was then captured by the enemies and they torchured him, cutting his fingers off. Only after that, did he return. After hearing this, White Man's Dog feels horrible and blames himself for what happened to Yellow Kidney because he hadn't warned the others with his dream. White Man's Dog thought to himself "Such a dream would have been a sign of bad medicine and they might have turned back" (76). This quote is the first time when it becomes apparent in the novel that dreams and visions really do impact the minds of the characters.
The second dream that is positive is a dream that Mik-api, the medicine man, has about Raven, a bird. In the dream, Raven had heard a cry of a four-legged creature, which was a wolverine. The wolverine had crossed through one of the enemies, the Crow's, caged traps and could not escape. Raven tried to free the wolverine, but he did not have enough strength to succeed. In this dream, Raven told Mik-api that he knew of White Man's Dog and how much strength he had. "It will take such a man to release our four-legged brother" (52). Mik-api tells White Man's Dog of this dream and he agrees to find the wolverine and set him free. On his journey to find the creature, he comes across Raven. Raven leads him to the wolverine. Already, this shows that Mik-api's dream must have had some significance, if he could dream of a real situation that was going on. White Man's Dog is afraid the wolverine will bite him, for it had been trapped for many days, probably hungry and angry, yet was so frail that he could not even cry out for help.