The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory write by Ramon Powers. This book was released on 2012-09-13. The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The exodus of the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to flee from Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an important event in American Indian history. It is equally important in the history of towns like Oberlin, Kansas, where Cheyenne warriors killed more than forty settlers. The Cheyennes, in turn, suffered losses through violent encounters with the U.S. Army. More than a century later, the story remains familiar because it has been told by historians and novelists, and on film. In The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers explore how the event has been remembered, told, and retold. They examine the recollections of Indians and settlers and their descendants, and they consider local history, mass-media treatments, and literature to draw thought-provoking conclusions about how this story has changed over time. The Cheyennes’ journey has always been recounted in melodramatic stereotypes, and for the last fifty years most versions have featured “noble savages” trying to reclaim their birthright. Here, Leiker and Powers deconstruct those stereotypes and transcend them, pointing out that history is never so simple. “The Cheyennes’ flight,” they write, “had left white and Indian bones alike scattered along its route from Oklahoma to Montana.” In this view, the descendants of the Cheyennes and the settlers they encountered are all westerners who need history as a “way of explaining the bones and arrowheads” that littered the plains. Leiker and Powers depict a rural West whose diverse peoples—Euro-American and Native American alike—seek to preserve their heritage through memory and history. Anyone who lives in the contemporary Great Plains or who wants to understand the West as a whole will find this book compelling.
In Dull Knife's Wake
In Dull Knife's Wake - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Dull Knife's Wake write by Vernon R. Maddux. This book was released on 2003. In Dull Knife's Wake available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1877, after the defeat of Custer at Little Bighorn, the U.S. Government removed the Northern Cheyenne from their traditional homelands to a reservation in Indian Territory(Oklahoma.) This is the story surrounding the breakout of the Northern Cheyenne from Darlington Reservation in 1878 and their bloody but futile attempt to return to their homeland in Montana.
Cheyenne Memories
Cheyenne Memories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cheyenne Memories write by John Stands In Timber. This book was released on 1998-01-01. Cheyenne Memories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An oral history of the Cheyenne Indians from legendary times to the early reservation years.
Tell Them We Are Going Home
Tell Them We Are Going Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tell Them We Are Going Home write by John H. Monnett. This book was released on 2004. Tell Them We Are Going Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tell Them We Are Going Home details the courageous journey of the Northern Cheyennes, under the leadership of Little Wolf and Dull Knife, from Indian Territory northward to their homelands in the Powder River country. Incorporating the perspectives of the Cheyennes, the U.S. military, the Indian Bureau, and the Kansas settlers who encountered the traveling Indians, this book provides a complete account of the odyssey. The dramatic fifteen-hundred-mile trek of the Northern Cheyennes through Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Montana, lasting from 1878 to 1879, would become one of the most important episodes in American history and in Cheyenne memory.
Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors
Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors write by Denise Low. This book was released on 2020-11. Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors presents the images of Native warriors—Wild Hog, Porcupine, and Left Hand, as well as possibly Noisy Walker (or Old Man), Old Crow, Blacksmith, and Tangled Hair—as they awaited probable execution in the Dodge City jail in 1879. When Sheriff Bat Masterson provided drawing materials, the men created war books that were coded to avoid confrontation with white authorities and to narrate survival from a Northern Cheyenne point of view. The prisoners used the ledger-art notebooks to maintain their cultural practices during incarceration and as gifts and for barter with whites in the prison where they struggled to survive. The ledger-art notebooks present evidence of spiritual practice and include images of contemporaneous animals of the region, hunting, courtship, dance, social groupings, and a few war-related scenes. Denise Low and Ramon Powers include biographical materials from the imprisonment and subsequent release, which extend the historical arc of Northern Cheyenne heroes of the Plains Indian Wars into reservation times. Sources include selected ledger drawings, army reports, letters, newspapers, and interviews with some of the Northern Cheyenne men and their descendants. Accounts from a firsthand witness of the drawings and composition of the ledgers themselves give further information about Native perspectives on the conflicted history of the North American West in the nineteenth century and beyond. This group of artists jailed after the tragedy of the Fort Robinson Breakout have left a legacy of courage and powerful art.
