Dozens of stories, legends and tales by a man who lived with the Blackfeet Indians in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Amazing legends told so vividly the reader can actually picture what is happening. Schultz was well regarded by the Blackfeet and this book is considered a valuable collection of Blackfeet history.
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James Willard Schultz came west as a young man in the late 1800s and lived with the Blackfeet for many years. He spoke the language and used sign language, absorbing hundreds of stories about the tribe, its history, and oral tradition. When he died in 1947, the Blackfeet tribe buried him near Two Medicine River, not far from Glacier Park.
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Bittersweet recollections told by talented storytellers,
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I'm usually not so fond of "Indian myths" and similar collections, as they are often written in a stilted language or are poorly translated. This book is a wonderful exception. Schultz writes it as a series of diary entries as his Blackfoot friends tell stories in the lodge or around the fire at the end of the day. He has managed to keep the compelling style of his original material, told by talented story tellers.Schultz was born to a wealthy family in upstate New York in 1859, but his wanderlust took him west. He married a Blackfoot woman and stayed with the tribe for several decades until fleeing to California after a legal run-in with Montana game wardens. From the evidence in this book, he was accepted as a tribal member, and he always refers to the Blackfoot as "his people," while whites were not. The stories run the gamut from tribal history to legend and myth. Most sound as if they are embellished stories of real events. Collectively they convey something of Blackfoot culture, daily life, and beliefs. Underneath the stories lies a deep sadness. The Blackfoot tribe has lost two-thirds to three-fourths of its members. Though the tribe still hunts there surreptitiously, Glacier National Park has become a tourist destination instead of tribal hunting grounds. The old ways are dying with the storytellers.
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I returned the book immediately. It was printed with a machine scanning the original book and converting the text to digital output. It was extremely difficult to read. The print was very small and pushed together with very little white space between the lines. There were no illustrations, and no chapter breaks.On the positive side, Amazon.com was very good about handling the return, and refunded my costs completely.
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AFTER an absence of many years, I have returned to visit for a time my Black-feet relatives and friends, and we are camping along the mountain trails where, in the long ago, we hunted buffalo, and elk, and moose, and all the other game peculiar to this region. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
war clothes, buffalo runners, medicine pipe, chief woman, new robe, medicine lodge, medicine pouch, water bear, old wolf Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thunder Man, One Horn, White Fur, Loud Slap, Mink Woman, Long Arrow, Heavy Runner, Two Medicine, Little River, Falling Bear, Lame Bull, Long Body, Mountain Chief, River Crow, Hugh Monroe, Lone Bull, Yellow Wolf, Wise Man, Black Bull, Chief Crow, Heavy Body, Red-Top Plume, Cutbank River, Otter Woman, Rising Bull New!
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AFTER an absence of many years, I have returned to visit for a time my Black-feet relatives and friends, and we are camping along the mountain trails where, in the long ago, we hunted buffalo, and elk, and moose, and all the other game peculiar to this region. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
war clothes, buffalo runners, medicine pipe, chief woman, new robe, medicine lodge, medicine pouch, water bear, old wolf Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thunder Man, One Horn, White Fur, Loud Slap, Mink Woman, Long Arrow, Heavy Runner, Two Medicine, Little River, Falling Bear, Lame Bull, Long Body, Mountain Chief, River Crow, Hugh Monroe, Lone Bull, Yellow Wolf, Wise Man, Black Bull, Chief Crow, Heavy Body, Red-Top Plume, Cutbank River, Otter Woman, Rising Bull New!
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- An Old Man by Eric M. Black on page 114, and page 136
- Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks by Mark David Spence in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Lonely Planet Banff, Jasper & Glacier National Parks (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) by Korina Miller on page 51, and Back Matter
- Prairie Song and Western Story by Hamlin Garland in Back Matter
- Glacier's Historic Hotels & Chalets: View with a Room by Ray Djuff on page 21
- Blackfeet Tales from Apikuni's World by James Willard Schultz in Back Matter
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