My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet

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“A rip-roaring yarn and a dazzling glimpse into a vanished past.” — The New York Times

In the year 1880, James Willard Schultz left the comfort of his home in St. Louis, bound for adventure in the Far West.

Fired by the writings of Lewis and Clark’s Journal, The Oregon Trail, Fremont’s expeditions, Schultz travelled across the breadth of the American continent to see one of the most land and the tribes of which they told.

As a young tenderfoot, Schultz quickly found his feet and before long he was once under the tutelage of the experienced trapper, Berry, who introduced him to a tribe of Piegan Blackfeet.

For the following couple of years, Schultz immersed himself in the ways of these Native Americans, assisting his friends in fighting rivals, hunting alongside them and even marrying Nat-ah’-ki, a Blackfoot woman.

As George Bird Grinnell states, “It’s an animated and vivid picture of Indian life. The scene is on the plains in the old days, in the picturesque period when the tribe lived in a primitive way, subsisting on the buffalo and at war with hostile neighbours.”

My Life as an Indian is very important reading for any person interested in Native American culture as it depicts vividly how they lived and survived at a moment in history when their way of living was once severely under threat.

“James Willard Schultz was once a master of storytelling in the Indian manner.” —John C. Ewers, writer of The Blackfeet: Raiders on the Northwestern Plains

“A sensation-creating volume.” — St. Petersburg Times

James Willard Schultz was once given the name Apikuni, meaning Spotted Robe, by the chief, Running Crane. He was once an early settler in the Montana region and wrote widely on Blood, Cree and Blackfeet Indians all the way through the latter half of the nineteenth century. He published this book on the age of forty eight in 1907 and died in 1947.

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