My Life as an Indian (Unabridged)
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Beautiful, tender, haunting, and full of excitement, this is the memoir of famed author, explorer, Glacier Park guide, trader, and historian of the Blackfoot Indians, James Willard Schultz. With the Blackfoot woman, whom he deeply loved, from 1880 to 1903, Schultz lived the life of a Blackfoot Indian with Nat-ah-ki and her people. During this time, he began writing for magazines, at times running a trading post, and working as a guide in the West.
He met historian, writer, and naturalist George Bird Grinnell, who encouraged him to write this heartfelt and important memoir. As an ethnography of a people and a time it is invaluable.
Though he would marry again, Schultz eventually went back to live near the Native peoples he'd come to love and is buried in the traditional ground of Nat-ah-ki's people. You won't read another memoir like it.
Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the migration that changed the country forever.
Customer Reviews
Outstanding!
Very fascinating read. The author provides a unique glimpse into the experiences of an American from the East living with and learning the culture of Native Americans right as the world as they knew it was about to permanently change. It is a much different account than most others out there, and a very enjoyable read.
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