Blackfeet Tales from Apikuni's World

by Schultz, James Willard

• ISBN13: 9780806134062
• ISBN10: 0806134062
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

At the turn of the twentieth century, James Willard Schultz wrote a series of tales centering on the adventures of a Blackfoot Indian boy and his Anglo friend in the days just prior to the end of the buffalo era on the western plains. All the tales appeared between 1910 and 1927 in the pages of the popular family weekly The Youth's Companion. The stories featured the sort of spirited adventure popular at the time, but Schultz was more conscientious than other writers of the day in his depiction of American Indian life. Schultz first encountered the Blackfeet in Montana Territory in 1877 when he was seventeen, and he lived among them for the next seventy years until his death. These tales are based on his experiences with the Blackfeet, who gave him the name Apikuni. Apikuni plays a role in many of the stories, usually under the name Spotted Robe. Though he was neither a historian nor an ethnologist, Schultz filled his stories with history, and with detailed descriptions of the Blackfoot daily life and culture. David C. Andrews has gathered these tales, the last of Schultz's to be published in book form, and arranged in the order in which they were written.

Author Biography

James Willard Schultz wrote forty-four books, including Blackfeet and Buffalo, Why Gone Those Times?, Floating on the Missouri, and Many Strange Characters David C. Andrews is a retired high-school history teacher. He edited The Piegan Storyteller for the James Willard Schultz Society for twenty years

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Editor's Introduction	xv
Author's Introduction	xxxi
An Adventure with Ap-si	3	(12)
The Making of a Warrior	15	(10)
The Bad Luck of Low Horn	25	(16)
The Punishment of Afraid Eyes	41	(14)
The Night Struggle	55	(14)
Trouble at Flatwillow	69	(12)
A Medicine Animal Hunt	81	(16)
A Hunt with Skunk Cap	97	(10)
High Bear and Real Bear	107	(12)
The Warning of the Gods	119	(10)
Skunk Cap's Medicine	129	(14)
A Message to the Mandans	143	(12)
A Day's Hunt	155	(12)
Because of Ap-si's Song	167	(12)
Rivois's Tale of Hardship	179	(10)
The Passing of Back-in-Sight	189	(10)
A Council and a Chase	199	(14)
The Story of Pita	213	(12)
The Works of James Willard Schultz	225