A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation

(Volume 1 of 2) Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world--ways of living and thinking that became casualties of colonization and forced assimilation. Spanning more than a millennium of antiquity and recovering stories and ideas interpreted from a Cheyenne worldview, the works' joint purpose is rooted as much in a decolonization roadmap as it is in preservation of culture and identity for the next generations of Cheyenne people. Dividing the story of the Cheyenne Nation into pre- and post-contact, A Sacred People and A Sovereign People lay out indigenously conceived possibilities for employing traditional worldviews to replace unhealthy and dysfunctional ones bred of territorial, cultural, and psychological colonization.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 11/25/2019
ISBN: 9781682830352
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d