Why Gone Those Times?

by Schultz, James Willard ('Apikuni')

• ISBN13: 9780806135458
• ISBN10: 080613545X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

James Willard Schultz first encountered the Blackfeet Indians in Montana Territory in 1877 when he was seventeen. In time, he married a Blackfeet woman, formed close friendships with many in the tribe, and lived with them off and on for the next seventy years until his death. Why Gone Those Times? is based on his experiences among the Blackfeet, who gave him the name Apikuni. Apikunis adventures include taming a wolf, raiding in Old Mexico, and stalking a black buffalo. Although Schultz was neither historian nor ethnologist, he filled his stories with Indian history and detailed descriptions of Blackfeet daily life and culture.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction	vii
The Buffalo Hunt	3	(14)
The Peril of Lone Man	17	(22)
Little Plume's Dream	39	(10)
To Old Mexico	49	(12)
The Loud Mouthed Gun	61	(16)
Trouble for the Gros Ventres	77	(18)
The Black Antelope	95	(18)
The First Fire Boat	113	(14)
The First Elk-Dog	127	(14)
The Famine Winter	141	(18)
A Bad Medicine Hunt	159	(16)
Laugher, The Story of a Tame Wolf	175	(16)
The End of Laugher	191	(12)
The Fatal Sign	203	(14)
Medicine Fly	217	(14)
Lone Elk's Search	231	(24)
Last Years of the Buffalo	255