The Cheyenne Indians, Volume 1: History and Society - Softcover

Grinnell, George Bird

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803257716 ISBN 13: 9780803257719

Publisher: Bison Books, 1972

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Their Ways of Life is a classic ethnography, originally published in 1923, 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.

About the Author:

George Bird Grinnell was a zoologist by training and an anthropologist by inclination. He accompanied Custer's Black Hills expedition as a naturalist in 1874 and from that time until his death in 1938 was closely associated with the Cheyennes and other Plains tribes. Other books by Grinnell available in Bison Book editions are Blackfoot Lodge Tales, Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales, By Cheyenne Campfires, and The Punishment of the Stingy and Other Indian Stories.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bison Books
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0803257716
• ISBN 13: 9780803257719
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 406