MY LIFE AS AN INDIAN:
THE STORY OF A RED WOMAN AND A WHITE MAN IN THE LODGES OF THE BLACKFEET
by James Willard Schultz
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Principal Characters
NAT-AH'-KI — A Blackfoot Indian girl who becomes the wife of the AUTHOR; a cheerful and sweet-tempered woman about whom the interest of the story centers. The book's finest character.
THE CROW WOMAN — An Arickaree captured long ago by the Crows and later taken from them by the Bloods.
MRS. BERRY — A Mandan woman, Wife of an old-time Indian trader, mother of BERRY and friend of the CROW WOMAN; learned in the ancient lore of her tribe.
DIANA — An orphan Indian girl, educated by ASHTON; a noble and brilliant woman, who meets a tragic death.
THE AUTHOR — At the age of twenty goes west to Montana Territory in search of wild life and adventure, and finds both with the Piegan Blackfeet; he marries into the tribe and lives with them for many years; goes with them on the hunt, and on the warpath; joins in their religious ceremonies; and as a squawman lives the Indian life.
BERRY — A mixed-blood Indian trader, born on the upper Missouri River; speaks half a dozen Indian languages, and is very much at home in Indian camps; an adept at all the tricks of the Indian trade.
SORREL HORSE — White man, trapper, and Indian trader; has an Indian family.
ASHTON — A young white man from the East who carries about with him a secret sorrow but finds peace at last.
FATHER PRANDO — A devoted Jesuit Priest whose life is given to mission work among the Indians. The Blackfeet's friend, comforter, and helper during the terrible Famine Year.
RISING WOLF — Early Hudson Bay man, typical trapper, trader, and interpreter of the romantic days of the early fur-trading period.
HEAVY BREAST — A Blackfoot partisan, leader of war parties, the possessor of a medicine pipe.
WOLVERINE — A Blackfoot, brother-in-law of SORREL HORSE, whom the AUTHOR helped to steal his wife.
WEASEL TAIL, TALKS-WITH-THE-BUFFALO — Blackfeet, close friends and hunting and war companions of the AUTHOR.
Notes: Doubleday, Page & Company, New York 1907
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