Here are the folk tales of the Cheyenne--stories of their heroes, their wars, their relationships with supernatural powers--as told to George Bird Grinnell during the winter months in Cheyenne tipis. "Of all the books written about Indians," say Margaret Mead and Ruth L. Benzel in The Golden Age of [...]
"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 B[...]
This book deals with the wars of the Cheyennes. A fighting and fearless people, the tribe was almost constantly at war with its neighbors. This account follows the local tribal wars and the eventual Indian wars between the westward moving settlers. A reprint of the 1916 edition an appendix has been [...]
Here are the great stories of the Blackfeet, including the entertaining Na'Pi (Old Man) stories of mischief and trickery; the hero Kut-o-yis', who got rid of the bad things; the secret societies and how the earth was created. Recorded in person by the famous conservationist and ethnologist, George B[...]
This beautiful book takes George Bird Grinnell's classic work on the Cheyenne Indians and condenses it into 240 fully-illustrated pages of his most essential writings. Grinell was the long-time editor of 'Field & Stream' magazine and helped to establish both the Yellowstone and Glacier National Park[...]