Cheyenne Historical Episodes of International Warfare and Relations

The author received his name Spotted-Tail-Eagle from his adopted Grandfather, Joe Medicine Crow. He has been a regular and welcome visitor to a number of North American tribes over many years and among whom, he has many adopted family members and contacts who have imparted to him personally, episodes often only repeated in their oral histories. The author's previous works include the well-received "Red Was the Blood of Our Forefathers" and "Ma'heo's Children."

With great attention to detail . . . presented from an objective perspective . . . vividly portrays a wild, merciless and cruel era, characterized by both magnanimity and, not least, tragedy, of these tribal enmities. Amerindian Research. Journal for Native American Cultures from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego

• Forward; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Four "Sacred Arrows"; Chapter 2. The "Buffalo Hat"; Chapter 3. Early Horse Days on the Western Plains [1800-`05]; Chapter 4. Cheyennes in Victory and Defeat [1806-1819]; Chapter 5. Eight-Hundred Crow Captives Taken [1820]; Chapter 6. Government Emissaries Meet Cheyennes [1820]; Chapter 7. Crow Vengeance on Cheyennes [1821]; Chapter 8. Raiding Pawnees, Crows and Mandans [1822-`24]; Chapter 9. Friendship Treaty, and Red-Dog-Rope Affair [1825]; Chapter 10. Move to South Platte and Bent`s Fort [1828]; Chapter 11. Cheyennes Defy the Shoshoni [1829]; Chapter 12. The Sacred Arrows Are Lost [1830]; Chapter 13. Big-Head Returns From the Dead [1831].; Chapter 14. Cheyennes Kill Dangling-Foot and Crow Revenge [1832-`33]; Chapter 15. Skidi Sacrifice, and Death of High-Backed-Wolf 1st [1833]... Chapter 16. Crows Trick Cheyennes; Cheyennes Defeat Kiowas [1835]... Chapter 17. Cheyenne Peace with Pawnees [1835]; Chapter 18. High-Backed-Wolf 2d Raids Pawnees [1836]; Chapter 19. Raid on Kiowas and Mouse`s-Road Killed [1837]; Chapter 20. Forty-Eight Cheyenne Bowstings Wiped Out [1837]; Chapter 21. Cheyenne Medicine-Snake is Killed [1837-`38]; Chapter 22. Preparations against the Kiowa [1838]; Chapter 23. Big Fight at Wolf Creek [1838]; Chapter 24. Intertribal Peace on the Southern Plains [1840]; Notes and Sources; Index;