A Cheyenne Voice: The Complete John Stands in Timber Interviews (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

Timber, John Stands In; Liberty, Margot

ISBN 10: 0806143797 / ISBN 13: 9780806143798

Published by University of Oklahoma Press, 2013

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scarce. Dust jacket slightly shelf worn with tiny chip top front corner.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Cheyenne Voice: The Complete John Stands in Timber Interviews (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806143797
• ISBN 13: 9780806143798
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians the Cherokees were early recognized as the greatest and the most civilized. Indeed, between 1540 and 1906 they reached a higher peak of civilization than any other North American Indian tribe. They invented a syllabary and developed an intricate government, including a system of courts of law. They published their own newspaper in both Cherokee and English and became noted as orators and statesmen.At the beginning the Cherokees’ conquest of civilization was agonizingly slow and uncertain. Warlords of the southern Appalachian Highlands, they were loath to expend their energies elsewhere. In the words of a British officer, "They are like the Devil’s pigg, they will neither lead nor drive."But, led or driven, the warlike and willful Cherokees, lingering in the Stone Age by choice at the turn of the eighteenth century, were forced by circumstances to transfer their concentration on war to problems posed by the white man. To cope with these unwelcome problems, they had to turn from the conquests of war to the conquest of civilization.

Review

"A Cheyenne Voice is the most vital cache of raw data to appear in a generation dealing with an American Indian tribe of such renown. John Stands In Timber's insights into Cheyenne history and culture reflect the very soul of the man, and Margot Liberty's interviews with him have become our treasure."--Jerome A. Greene, author of Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876, and Washita: The U.S. Army and the Southern Cheyennes, 1867-1869