My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet (1907);

Fascinating, firsthand memoir of a young white man's life among the Piegan Blackfeet in Montana Territory. Includes detailed accounts of religious ceremonies and customs, child-rearing, food preparation, tanning buffalo hides, war parties, raids, and much else. Of great interest to ethnologists and students of Native American history. 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 of inspiration when he met the Blackfeet and quickly settled into their lifestyle, even taking a Blackfoot woman for his wife and riding along with the men on buffalo hunts and wars with neighboring tribes.

Contents
I Fort Benton
II The Ruse Of A Savage Lover
III The Tragedy Of The Marias
IV A War Trip For Horses
V Days With The Game
VI The Story Of The Crow Woman
VII A White Buffalo
VIII A Winter On The Marias
IX I Have A Lodge Of My Own
X The Killing Of A Bear
XI The Kutenai's Story
XII The Great Race
XIII The Snake Woman
XIV The Snake Woman's Quest
XV I Return To My People
XVI The Story Of Rising Wolf
XVII A Friendly Visit From The Crows
XVIII A Raid By The Crows
XIX Nat-ah-ki's Wedding
XX THE Attack On The Hunters
XXI Never-laughs Goes East .
XXII The War Trip Of Queer Person
XXIII The Piegans Move In
XXIV A Wolverine's Medicine
XXV Little Deer's End
XXVI The Ways Of The Northland
XXVII The Story Of Ancient Sleeper
XXVIII Diana's Marriage
XXIX A Game Of Fate
XXX Trade, Hunt And War Party
XXXI Nat-ah'-ki's Ride
XXXII Curbing The Wanderers
XXXIII Crees And Red Rivers
XXXIV The Last Of The Buffalo
XXXV The " Winter Of Death "
XXXVI The " Black Robe's Help"
XXXVII Later Years

This book published in 1907 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.