The Fighting Cheyennes (Volume 44) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) - Softcover

Grinnell, George Bird

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806118393 ISBN 13: 9780806118390

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983

Synopsis

"A long association with the Cheyennes has given me a special interest in them, and a special wish that they should be allowed to speak for themselves. What the Indians saw in the battles here described, I have learned during years of intimate acquaintance with those who took part in them."-George Bird Grinnell.

Without critical comment or biased judgement, George Bird Grinnell-one of the truly great historians of the American Indian-has recorded the major battles that the Cheyennes fought. In this account the entire gallery of the heroic Cheyenne chiefs and warriors-Roman Nose and Black Kettle and Dull Knife and many others-emerge in full color as they strive against the greatest enemy of all: the failure of the white man to understand and appreciate their way of life and his ignorance of their real capacity for peace and cooperation.

"[Grinnell’s] integrity, sincerity, sympathy, and understanding made him welcome in every tipi. . . . He was one of the very few historians who knew how to get authentic information from Indians, and how to present things as they saw them in readable form."–Stanley Vestal in the foreword.

About this title

About the Author:

George Bird Grinnell was a man of diverse talents―editor, author, traveler, and scientist. Born in 1849, he became, by turn of the century, one of the best-known and most popular interpreters of the American Indian.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0806118393
• ISBN 13: 9780806118390
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480