A fur trader from 1878 to 1904, Schultz married a Pikuni (Blackfoot) woman, became a member of the tribe, and was given the Blackfoot name Apikuni. With the disappearance of the buffalo it was as difficult for Schultz to adjust to the new way of life as it was for the other Blackfeet. He took to the mountains and explored the eastern slope of the Rockies, hunting game and guiding other hunters and explorers, including George Bird Grinnell, the Baring brothers, and Ralph Pulitzer. He named mountains, glaciers, and lakes; he was the first to identify the mountain goat; and through his and Grinnell’s efforts the northern portion of the American Rockies was set apart as Glacier National Park.
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James Willard Schultz was the author of many stories and thirty-nine books on Indian life in the West.
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Excellent storyteller,
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This review is from: Blackfeet and Buffalo: Memories of Life among the Indians (Paperback)
J. W. Schultz was a storyteller extraordinaire, not an historian. If you want the true flavor of the times and people portrayed in this book, without being a stickler for correct dates and perhaps even names, then this book is for you.
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While this book has its place, read The Ways of My Grandmothers by Beverly Hungry Wolf if you want to know what it was like to BE Indian. Being from Montana I'm very familiar with Schultz and his wife; and their involvement in the loss and recovery of medicine bundles that went to Bernadotte in Sweden. Schultz was 88 when he died in 1947 so his wonderful story telling has its place. But, in general, I'm leery of books that make it appear that Indian culture is a pre-20th century phenomena when it is alive and well NOW. I would wish that if you enjoy this book that you would also take a moment to read contemporary authors on what it is like on the Red Road today. Native America, today, is alive and well. There are problems in any culture, but the gifts are many. Hope to see you on the pow-wow trail!
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FORT CONRAD! What memories I have of it: the busy days of trade; the quiet peace; the stirring adventures there and thereabout in the long-ago days of the buffalo. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fast buffalo horse, sacred helper, buffalo stone, timber bordering, war sack, trade room, war clothes, buffalo horses, sacred lodge, lodge fires, soldier chief, sacred arrow, white horns, dry fork, great lodge, enemy horses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fort Benton, Far Pine, White Dog, Lance Woman, Bear Head, Big Nose, Eagle Head, Morning Star, Above Ones, Otter Woman, Big Lake, Red Eagle, Big River, Entrails People, High Eagle, Mad Wolf, Fort Conrad, Red Coats, Fox Eyes, Long Elk, Sleeping Thunder, White Antelope, Badger Woman, Crow Woman, Little Otter New!
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FORT CONRAD! What memories I have of it: the busy days of trade; the quiet peace; the stirring adventures there and thereabout in the long-ago days of the buffalo. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fast buffalo horse, sacred helper, buffalo stone, timber bordering, war sack, trade room, war clothes, buffalo horses, sacred lodge, lodge fires, soldier chief, sacred arrow, white horns, dry fork, great lodge, enemy horses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fort Benton, Far Pine, White Dog, Lance Woman, Bear Head, Big Nose, Eagle Head, Morning Star, Above Ones, Otter Woman, Big Lake, Red Eagle, Big River, Entrails People, High Eagle, Mad Wolf, Fort Conrad, Red Coats, Fox Eyes, Long Elk, Sleeping Thunder, White Antelope, Badger Woman, Crow Woman, Little Otter New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- My Life as an Indian (Native American) by J. W. Schultz on 5 pages
- The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt: And Other Blackfoot Stories by Hugh A. Dempsey on page 66
- Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians (Sources of American Indian Oral Literature) by Alice Beck Kehoe on page 343
- Thomas Moran by Nancy K. Anderson on page 82
- Theodore Roosevelt (First Biographies (Capstone Hardcover)) by Judy Emerson on page 123
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- Blackfeet Tales from Apikuni's World by James Willard Schultz in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Bring Back the Buffalo!: A Sustainable Future For America's Great Plains by Ernest Callenbach in Back Matter
- The Cowboy Way: An Exploration of History and Culture by Paul H. Carlson on page 59
- Wolf Shadow's Promise (Legendary Warrior) by Karen Kay in Back Matter
- To Save the Wild Bison: Life on the Edge in Yellowstone by Mary Ann Franke in Back Matter
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