I am a white man and never forget it, but I was brought up by the cheyenne indians from the age of ten." So starts the story of jack crabb, the 111-year old narrator of Thomas Berger's masterpiece of American fiction. As...I am a white man and never forget it, but I was brought up by the cheyenne indians from the age of ten." So starts the story of jack crabb, the 111-year old narrator of Thomas Berger's masterpiece of American fiction. As a "Human being", as the cheyenne called their own, he won the name Little Big Man.