3. Why does Omakayas ask the birds for forgiveness?

Omakayas and Angaline were scaring away crows when Angaline had an idea. The idea was to catch crows to eat. While they were killing the caught crows, Omakayas spied a crow infant stuck in the net with a broken wing. She set it free, but it didn't want to go, so she put him in her knapsack secretly. Deedee's ghost story explained you should always listen to older people, no matter what. Deedee gave Omakayas a hide scraper, made out of his broken gun barrel. This was from The Birchbark House the book.