The Cheyenne Indians 1905

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... I Other Foreigners. --Md-i-viho1 (Md-i-vihb1), 'red white-men'; used generally for Irish, Germans, and all other whites of peculiar speech not included under preceding classifications. Hayden has "Ma-wi-o, 'red bodied people, ' Mormons." CHEYENNE BIBLIOGRAPHY Abert, Lieut. J. W. Report of his examination of New Mexico in the years 1846 and 1847. In Senate Ex. Doc. 23, 30th Cong., 1st Sess., Washington, 1848. Valuable notes on Cheyenne met at Bent's Fort, with remarks on grammar and vocabulary of about 150 words, together with 3 plate portraits. ' With the assistance of Mr. Smith [John S. Smith, q. v.], who trades for the fort, and who speaks the Cheynne [sie] language better, perhaps, than any other white man in the country, I made notes of everything that my red friends communicated. . . . From this day forth I spent several hours in the daily study of this language, and had succeeded in forming an elementary grammar; but on my winter journey back to St. Louis, in December and February, these papers were lost." It was from this vocabulary that Latham and Gallatin identified the language as Algonquian. Atkinson, General Henry. Report on Missouri River Treaty Expedition of 1825. In H. R. Doc. 117, 19th Cong., 1st Sess. (War Department), Washington, 1826. Notice on Cheyenne in 1825. Baker, Theodor. Uber die Musik der Nordamerikanischen Wilden. Leipzig, 1882. Two Cheyenne "war songs," with music. Bancroft, Hubert H. History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming. San Francisco, 1890. Notices of Indian wars, Cheyenne, Sioux, etc., to 1880; the Bents, Bent's Fort, Laramie, etc. History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana. San Francisco, 1890. Beecher Island Monument. In Trans. Kansas State Historical Soc, 190506, ix, 4S3-S4, Topeka, 1906. Description...

This beautiful book takes Grinnell's classic work on the Cheyenne Indians andcondenses it into 240 fully illustrated pages of his most essential writings.During his career as editor of "Field & Stream" magazine, Grinnell documentedseveral tribes of the Old West, including this vivid account.

The Indian Man examines the life of James Mooney (1861?1921), the son of poor Irish immigrants who became a champion of Native peoples and one of the most influential anthropology fieldworkers of all time. As a staff member of the Smithsonian Institution for over three decades, Mooney conducted fieldwork and gathered invaluable information on rapidly changing Native American cultures across the continent. His fieldwork among the Eastern Cherokees, Cheyennes, and Kiowas provides priceless snapshots of their traditional ways of life, and his sophisticated and sympathetic analysis of the 1890 Ghost Dance and the consequent tragedy at Wounded Knee has not been surpassed a century later.

This book recounts the reservation period of the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes in western Oklahoma and the following fifteen years. It is an investigation-and an indictment-of the assimilation and reservation policies thrust upon them in the latter half of the nineteenth century, policies that succeeded only in doing enormous damage to sturdy, vital people. Confined to a reservation in the Indian Territory in 1875, the Southern Cheyennes and their neighbors, the Arapahoes, traditionally hunting and mobile societies, were forced into the federal government's image of "educated, Christian farmer-citizens." Lacking the support of adequate appropriations or protective legislation, the Cheyennes' lives were dominated by hunger, disease, and despair. Continuing niggardliness on the part of Congress in providing adequate agricultural equipment and instruction and an environment hostile to cultivation made agricultural self-sufficiency all but impossible. The continued reduction of their land base through allotments under the 1887 Dawes Act and later leasing and sale of land to whites further eroded the Indians' meager sources of income and security. An educational policy that left Cheyenne children without hope of jobs, the banning of traditional religious ceremonies, the prejudice of white citizens and institutions, and the undermining of the roles of head men and medicine men led to further despair. But, as the author demonstrates, despite these crushing burdens and in the face of the slow and inevitable changes in the society, the Southern Cheyennes retained their identity, a testimony to their courage and character. This well-documented, compassionate account of the ordeal of the two tribes serves as a classic example of what happened to America's Indians at the hands of the whites.