The Fighting Cheyennes (Volume 44) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

"This book deals with the wars of the Cheyennes. A fighting and a fearless people. When their struggles with the white men began, some of their older and wiser men strove earnestly to preserve peace, but their efforts failed. During these first wars between the whites and the Cheyennes, the United States Government was struggling for its very life. Its attention was concentrated on the war between the North and the South, and the movements of a few Indians on the thinly settled frontier attracted little notice. As more and more people pushed into the West, there was more and more fighting with Indians, until in 1878-9 it ceased — so far as the Cheyennes were concerned.Since the Indians could not write, the history of their wars has been set down by their enemies, and the story has been told always from the hostile point of view. White writers have lauded white courage and claimed white successes. If it has been necessary to confess defeat, they have abused those who overcame them, as the defeated always abuse the victors.Evidently there is another side to this history, and this other side is one which should be recorded; and, since the wars are now distant in time, the Indians’ own descriptions of these battles may be read without much prejudice. I have tried to present the accounts by whites and Indians, without comment." Язык: английский Впервые вышедшая в 1915 году книга Джорджа Бёрда Гриннелла "Сражающиеся чейены" сегодня является классикой индеанистики. Она посвящена войнам индейцев племени чейенов (шайенов) с соседними племенами (кроу, пауни, кайова и др.) и армией США. Для увлекающихся североамериканской этнографией - книга из разряда must have. Для справки: чейены - одно из самых воинственных и наиболее упорно сопротивлявшихся белой колонизации племён американских Великих равнин. Более подробно о них можно прочитать в другой книге Д. Гриннелла (The Cheyenne Indians): (http://torrents.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1739661) http://torrents.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1739661 THE CHEYENNES are one of three groups of Indians of the Western plains belonging to the Algonquian family.