My Life as an Indian

The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet

J. W. Schultz

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9781602397347
• eBook ISBN:
  9781626366206
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Titlepage
• Copyright
• Publisher’s Note
• Editor’s Note
• Contents
• Principal Characters
• illustrations
• Chapter I Fort Benton
• Chapter II The Ruse of a Savage Lover
• Chapter III The Tragedy of the Marias
• Chapter IV A War trip for Horses
• Chapter V Days With the Game
• Chapter VI The Story of the Crow Woman
• Chapter VII A White Buffalo
• Chapter VIII A Winter on the Marias
• Chapter IX I have a Lodge Of My Own
• Chapter X The Killing of a Bear
• Chapter XI The Kutenai’s Story
• Chapter XII The Great Race
• Chapter XIII The Snake Woman
• Chapter XIV The Snake Woman’s Quest
• Chapter XV I Return To My People
• Chapter XVI The Story of Rising Wolf
• Chapter XVII A Friendly Visit from the Crows
• Chapter XVIII A Raid By the Crows
• Chapter XIX Nät-ah’-Ki’s Wedding
• Chapter XX The Attack on the Hunters
• Chapter XXI Never-Laughs Goes East
• Chapter XXII The War Trip of Queer Person
• Chapter XXIII The Piegans Move In
• Chapter XXIV A Wolverine’s Medicine
• Chapter XXV Little Deer’s End
• Chapter XXVI The Ways of the Northland
• Chapter XXVII The Story of Ancient Sleeper
• Chapter XXVIII Diana’s Marriage
• Chapter XXIX A Game Of Fate
• Chapter XXX Trade, Hunt, and War Party
• Chapter XXXI Nät-ah’-Ki’s Rids
• Chapter XXXII Curbing The Wanderers
• Chapter XXXIII Crees and Red Rivers
• Chapter XXXIV The Last of the Buffalo
• Chapter XXXV The “Winter of Death”
• Chapter XXXVI The “Black Robe’s Help”
• Chapter XXXVII Later Years