The fighting Cheyennes
Grinnell lived among the Cheyenne in the latter part of the 19th century. He was a deeply sympathetic observer of Indian life researching their culture, traditions, daily habits and ways of life. He covers their early wars with neighboring tribes, as well as the later wars with settlers brought on by westward expansion into Cheyenne territory. Indeed, the Cheyenne were friendly to whites up to the mid-1850's. The discovery of gold in the Cheyenne and Arapaho hunting lands would change that. The notorious Sand Creek Massacre of Black Kettle's band in 1864 would become the flash point
Print Book, English, [2004]
Digital Scanning, Scituate, Mass., [2004]