Cheyenne Indian History

Description: The Cheyenne Field Columbian Museum Volume I – Ceremonial Organization Volume II – The Sun Dance By George A. Dorsey 1905 186 + 186 pages, illustrated with photos, engravings & drawings, indexed, searchable - Bonus Books -Northern Cheyenne Tribe InvestigationsSocial, Cultural and EconomicIn Two VolumesIllustrated, searchable ************************************************************************ Digital CD Requires Adobe Reader 7.0 or higher to View Autoboot CD for Easy PC Access; Manually Open Files on MAC *********************************************************************************** The following brief and imperfect account of the Cheyenne social organization was obtained as part of my studies of the Cheyenne Sun-Dance, which, in turn, are part of a comparative study on this ceremony among the Plains Tribes I began in 1901. The Cheyenne Sun-Dance will form the subject of Part II. of this volume. These notes on the organization of the Cheyenne are given in this form because opportunity for further and more extended observation does not now seem possible. The Cheyenne, while considered in many ways the most conser- vative of the tribes of the plains, are rapidly losing their social organi- zation, and the time will soon arrive when it will cease to have any meaning to the tribe as a whole. This organization was not unlike that of the Arapaho, and was formerly strictly adhered to. The accounts of the societies, the myths of the origin of the same, and the story of the medicine-arrows are given, with but slight changes, as they were obtained through Richard Davis, a full-blood Cheyenne, as interpreter The colored illustrations were made direct from drawings made by Richard Davis or other Cheyenne artists; the pen drawings were made from diagrams drawn by Richard Davis. George A. Dorsey. Table of Contents:I. Ceremonies. 1. The Prophet’s four great Medicine- Arrows i 2 . The Keeper of the Medicine- Arrows - - - - - - n 3 . The four assistant Medicine- Arrow Keepers - - - - 1 1 4. The Medicine-Men - - - - - - - - -12 5 . The four ex-Chiefs and the forty Chiefs - - - - -12 6. The five original Warrior Societies - • - - - - -15 7. The Red-Shield Warriors - - - - - - - -16 8. The Hoof- Rattle Warriors - - - - • - - 18 9. The Coyote Warriors - - - - - - - -19 10. The Dog-Men Warriors -------- 20 11. The Inverted or Bow-String Warriors ----- 24 12. Owl-Man’s Bow-String or Wolf Warriors ----- 26 13. ' The Medicine or Sun Dance ------- 30 II. Myths. 14. The Origin of the Cheyenne - - - - - - -34 15. The Origin of the Cheyenne - - - - - - 37 16. The Origin of the Buffalo and of Corn - - - - 39 17. The Origin of the Medicine- Arrows - - - - - - - 41 18. The Origin of the Sun-Dance ------- 46 III. Conclusion ----------- 50 ILLUSTRATIONS. Plate Page I. The Medicine- Arrow — Camp Circle ------ 7 II. The Election of Chiefs — Camp Circle - - - - 12 III. Diagram of Chief’s Lodge - - - - - - -13 IV. Diagram of Chief’s Lodge - - - - - - -13 V. Diagram of Chief’s Lodge - - - - - - - -13 VI. Warrior’s Shirts - - - - - - - - -15 VII. War Bonnets - - - - - - - - - -15 VIII. Fig. 1. Red-Shield Warrior - - - - - - -17 Fig. 2. Hoof-Rattle Warrior - - - - - - -17 IX. Fig. 1. Coyote Warrior - -- -- -- -20 Fig. 2. Dog-Men Warrior - - - - - - - 20 X. Fig. 1. Inverted or Bow-String Warrior - - - - - 24 Fig. 2. Inverted or Bow-String Warrior - - - - 24 XI. Fig. 1. Wolf Warriors -------- 28 Fig. 2. Wolf Warriors - -- -- -- - 28 XII. The Cheyenne journey to the North ------ 47 XIII. Erect-Horns selects a Companion ------ 47 XIV. They discover the Sacred Mountain ------ 48 XV. They receive instruction from the Great Medicine - - - 48 XVI. They leave the Mountain, followed by Buffalo - - - - 48 XVII. The ancient Cheyenne Camp-Circle ------ 49

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