The Cheyenne Indians - Grinnell, George Bird
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"A half-century spent in rubbing shoulders with the Cheyennes… forbids me to think of them except as acquaintances, comrades, and friends. While their culture differs from ours in some respects, fundamentally they are like ourselves, except in so far as their environment has obliged them to adopt a mode of life and of reasoning that is not quite our own, and which, without experience, we do not readily understand." -George Bird Grinnell, Preface to The Cheyenne Indians The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life-Vol. II (1923) by George Bird Grinnell, describes the life and culture of…mehr

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"A half-century spent in rubbing shoulders with the Cheyennes… forbids me to think of them except as acquaintances, comrades, and friends. While their culture differs from ours in some respects, fundamentally they are like ourselves, except in so far as their environment has obliged them to adopt a mode of life and of reasoning that is not quite our own, and which, without experience, we do not readily understand." -George Bird Grinnell, Preface to The Cheyenne Indians The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life-Vol. II (1923) by George Bird Grinnell, describes the life and culture of the Cheyennes, a Native American people originally from what is now Minnesota. Volume II of this two-volume set looks at the Cheyennes' practice of waging wars, their religious beliefs, and healing practices.
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GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL (1849-1938), was an influential American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Dedicated to the restoration of America's wildlands, he became a conservationist and student of Native American Life. Grinnell wrote many books, of which his best known are The Fighting Cheyennes, The Cheyenne Indians and When Buffalo Ran.