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My Life As an Indian

James Willard Schultz

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...

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The MeatEater Podcast

This book, along with "A Rising Wolf", was discussed as part of a planned book club. It is an amateur ethnography offering a portrait of life with the Blackfeet.

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The memoir of human row, human row who lived with the Blackfeet starting around 1810. And then there's a so his book was called a rising wolf or something like that. Then there's another book called M...

— Episode: Ep. 417: Snarge

Episode: Ep. 417: Snarge

This book, along with "A Rising Wolf", was discussed as part of a planned book club. It is an amateur ethnography offering a portrait of life with the Blackfeet.

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The memoir of human row, human row who lived with the Blackfeet starting around 1810. And then there's a so his book was called a rising wolf or something like that. Then there's another book called My Life as an Indian, which is Charles Willard Shoals who live with the Blackfeet kind of like right after he did. And then these books are collected together. So it's this portrait of these, it's this like basically amateur ethnography by two individuals who lived in 100 with the Blackfeet. We would read that. Everybody would read it.

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