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My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet
by
J.W. Schultz
First published in 1907, My Life as an Indian is the memoir of J. W. Schultz s life as a young white man among the Piegan Blackfeet in the Montana Territory. Out of curiosity and in search of adventure, Schultz went west and became a trapper and trader. He was inspired by the journals of Lewis and Clark and George Catlin s Oregon Trail, but found a wholly different source ...more
Paperback, 426 pages
Published
January 1st 2010
by Skyhorse Publishing
(first published November 30th 1905)
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A very interesting account of life with the Piegan Blackfeet. He starts his story about 1770 or a bit earlier and goes all the way to after the Blackfeet are all corraled on the reservation. He speaks so tenderly of his Blackfoot wife; it's really sweet. He also writes vividly, so you can see what the west was like before white men ruined it (in his opinion).
I enjoyed this book, written sort of like a journal with every chapter a story in itself yet sequenced. About life among the Blackfoot, Piegan on the plains and eastern part of the Rockies in Montana and southern Canada. Very similar happenings to many of the plains Indians toward the end of the Buffalo. The abundance of game and buffalo up till the extermination of them and also the changes with trade, reservations, Indian agents that were crooked, and the end of a free life style. Great story...more
read it several times and absolutely loved it!
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Recommends it for:
anyone interested in historically accurate accounts of native american culture
Recommended to Holly by:
Kay Wagner
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historical-fiction,
native-american
This is a first hand account of a trader who became friends with and was accepted by the Piegan tribe. He eventually married a Blackfoot woman and spent his days trading and watching the decline of the native's way of life. He was able to chronicle the disappearance of the buffalo and the decimation of the plains by the cattle and sheep farmers. Overall, an excellent description of the American west in the early 1800's.
Joseph
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