Cheyenne

The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Their Ways of Life is a classic ethnography, originally published in 1928, that grew out of George Bird Grinnell's long acquaintance with the Cheyennes. Volume I looks at the tribe's early history and migrations, customs, domestic life, social organization, hunting, amusements, and government. In a second volume, Grinnell would consider its warmaking and warrior societies, healing practices and responses to European diseases, religious beliefs and rituals, and legends and prophecies surrounding the culture hero Sweet Medicine.

Examines the history, changing fortunes, and current situation of the Cheyenne Indians.

“If Chaucer were a Texan writing today . . . this is how he would have written and this is how he would have felt.”— New York Times In Leaving Cheyenne (1963), which anticipates Lonesome Dove more than any other early novel, the stark realities of the American West play out in a mesmerizing love triangle. Stubborn rancher Gideon Fry, resilient Molly Taylor, and awkward ranch hand Johnny McCloud struggle with love and jealousy as the years pass.

Cheyenne Wilson loses her adoptive parents in an accident and discovers that she is a Timeless, which means she only ages one year for every century in human years, and must face the secrets of her past with only her best friend, Colt, to comfort her.

Rarely does a primary source become available that provides new and significant information about the history and culture of a famous American Indian tribe. With A Cheyenne Voice, readers now have access to a vast ethnographic and historical trove about the Cheyenne people—much of it previously unavailable. A Cheyenne Voice contains the complete transcribed interviews conducted by anthropologist Margot Liberty with Northern Cheyenne elder John Stands In Timber (1882–1967). Recorded by Liberty in 1956–1959 when she was a schoolteacher on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana, the interviews were the basis of the well-known 1967 book Cheyenne Memories. While that volume is a noteworthy edited version of the interviews, this volume presents them word for word, in their entirety, for the first time. Along with memorable candid photographs, it also features a unique set of maps depicting movements by soldiers and warriors at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Drawn by Stands In Timber himself, they are reproduced here in full color. The diverse topics that Stands In Timber addresses range from traditional stories to historical events, including the battles of Sand Creek, Rosebud, and Wounded Knee. Replete with absorbing, and sometimes even humorous, details about Cheyenne tradition, warfare, ceremony, interpersonal relations, and everyday life, the interviews enliven and enrich our understanding of the Cheyenne people and their distinct history.

A 2021 Kansas Notable Book Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors presents the images of Native warriors--Wild Hog, Porcupine, and Left Hand, as well as possibly Noisy Walker (or Old Man), Old Crow, Blacksmith, and Tangled Hair--as they awaited probable execution in the Dodge City jail in 1879. When Sheriff Bat Masterson provided drawing materials, the men created war books that were coded to avoid confrontation with white authorities and to narrate survival from a Northern Cheyenne point of view. The prisoners used the ledger-art notebooks to maintain their cultural practices during incarceration and as gifts and for barter with whites in the prison where they struggled to survive. The ledger-art notebooks present evidence of spiritual practice and include images of contemporaneous animals of the region, hunting, courtship, dance, social groupings, and a few war-related scenes. Denise Low and Ramon Powers include biographical materials from the imprisonment and subsequent release, which extend the historical arc of Northern Cheyenne heroes of the Plains Indian Wars into reservation times. Sources include selected ledger drawings, army reports, letters, newspapers, and interviews with some of the Northern Cheyenne men and their descendants. Accounts from a firsthand witness of the drawings and composition of the ledgers themselves give further information about Native perspectives on the conflicted history of the North American West in the nineteenth century and beyond. This group of artists jailed after the tragedy of the Fort Robinson Breakout have left a legacy of courage and powerful art.

Val has enjoyed the steamy benefits of her relationship with her nerdy boyfriend, Tim—the way he pumps up her freckled jugs to ridiculous sizes and swells her muscles until she’s thick and tight—but in the back of mind, she has always felt like something is missing. Like she’s not enough. Perhaps, Val wonders, it is because she has been a cripple for years. Are those countless hours spent pounding iron at the gym really just a desperate effort to compensate for the cane she depends on, or her lame, scarred leg that doctors say will never work right again? How can a 20-year-old woman be so fit and attractive yet walk—or rather, limp—around harboring such humiliation? Especially when she used to be such a legendary athlete? Sometimes the shame is more than the busty redhead can bear. Then one day Val wakes up healed. She can run, she can jump, she can train without restraint. Her head spins with ambition. She enters the Bayou Brawl, a track-and-field competition that pits Val against the biggest, baddest female athletes around. Her body in peak form, Val thinks winning will be simple. But things are never simple when the growth power is involved. There are a few problems standing in Val’s way more daunting than mere hurdles and high-jumps: • It wasn’t her boyfriend that healed her . . . but another man that schemes to win over the gorgeous ginger’s heart. • Sleeping within Val is an ancient evil that dreams of world domination . . . and it’s finally waking up. • Her boyfriend thinks with his you-know-what rather than his brain most of the time . . . and there’s no telling how he’ll use his growth powers when the going gets tough. Sure, Tim promised Val he wouldn’t interfere with the competition by growing her muscles to give her an advantage. But what happens when it’s Val’s athletic rival Cheyenne who unexpectedly grows big, dripping jugs that expand more and more, the creamy cans hindering her progress slowly but surely in the grand race for first place? Could Tim really be that dumb? Probably. But as Val knows firsthand . . . appearances can be deceiving. This story is Book 6 of an erotic romance series featuring egregious breast expansion and female muscle growth.