My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet

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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.