The Essential Writings of James Willard Schultz
Blackfeet Oral Traditions, Plains History, and Frontier Adventures from a Changing Indigenous WorldBy James Willard Schultz
Length33h 25m
About this audiobook
The Essential Writings of James Willard Schultz gathers representative narratives from a career devoted to recording the landscapes, histories, and lifeways of the northern Rocky Mountains, especially those of the Blackfeet people. Combining memoir, ethnographic observation, adventure narrative, and historical fiction, Schultz writes in a lucid, anecdotal style animated by close attention to place, ceremony, subsistence, kinship, and oral tradition. The collection is valuable both as regional literature and as a document of early twentieth-century efforts to represent Indigenous experience for a predominantly non-Indigenous readership, inviting appreciation while also encouraging critical reflection on mediation, authorship, and cultural authority. Born in 1859, Schultz spent much of his life in Montana and developed an unusually intimate relationship with the Blackfeet community, who knew him as Apikuni. His experiences as a trader, outdoorsman, rancher, and resident observer supplied the material for an extensive body of writing. At a time when popular literature often reduced Native peoples to stereotypes, Schultz sought to preserve specific memories and knowledge, though his work inevitably bears the assumptions and literary conventions of his era. This volume is recommended to readers of Indigenous and western studies, environmental humanities, frontier literature, and American cultural history. It offers compelling storytelling alongside rich evidence of cross-cultural encounter, making it especially rewarding for readers who can approach its testimony with both sympathy and scholarly scrutiny.
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GenreHistory
Length33 hrs 25 mins
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Publish dateDec 20, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Amazing Stories from the History of Ohio (Illustrated) (Annotated)
2The Essential Writings of James Willard Schultz
3In the Great Apache Forest
4Introducing the Hero
5Chapter I. Alone on Mount Thomas
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6Chapter II. The Mountain Cave
7Chapter III. The Firebugs at Work
8Chapter IV. Hunting the Deserter
9Chapter V. The People-of-Peace
10Chapter VI. The Wrongs of the Hopis
11Chapter VII. The Old Men in Rain God’s Cave
12Chapter VIII. The Death of Old Double Killer
13Chapter IX. The Bear Skin is Stolen
14Chapter X. Catching the Firebugs
15With the Indians in the Rockies
16Preface
17Chapter I
18Chapter II
19Chapter III
20Chapter IV
21Chapter V
22Chapter VI
23Chapter VII
24Chapter VIII
25Chapter IX
26Chapter X
27Rising Wolf the White Blackfoot
28Introduction
29Chapter I. With the Hudson's Bay Company
30Chapter II. The Sun-Glass
31Chapter III. Hunting with Red Crow
32Chapter IV. A Fight with the River People
33Chapter V. Buffalo Hunting
34Chapter VI. Camping on Arrow River
35Chapter VII. The Crows Attack the Blackfeet
36Chapter VIII. In the Yellow River Country
37Chapter IX. The Coming of Cold Maker
38Chapter X. Making Peace with the Crows
39Sinopah the Indian Boy
40Chapter I. Sinopah Gets His Name
41Chapter II. Sinopah and Sinopah
42Chapter III. Sinopah and His Playfellows
43Chapter IV. Sinopah's Escape from the Buffalo
44Chapter V. The Clay Toys
45Chapter VI. The Story of Scarface
46Chapter VII. The Buffalo Trap
47Chapter VIII. Spinning Top
48Chapter IX. Sinopah's First Bow
49Chapter X. Tracking a Mountain Lion
50Chapter XI. Sinopah Joins the Mosquito Society
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