Cheyenne IndiansU of Nebraska Press, 1972 - 358 pages |
Contents
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Warrior Societies | 48 |
Religious Beliefs | 87 |
Disease Healing Death | 126 |
Useful Plants | 166 |
Ceremonial | 192 |
Medicine Lodge | 211 |
Massaum Ceremony | 285 |
The Culture Heroes | 337 |
Appendix A | 382 |
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Page 7 - Indeed, it is evident that once warfare has become habitual in a community, it will soon react upon the social values in that community. For instance, ' The motives which led the Cheyennes to go to war were ... a desire for glory, a wish to add to their possessions, or eagerness for revenge, but the chief motive was love of fighting, which was instilled into them from early youth. From their earliest days boys were taught to long for the approbation of their elders, and this approbation was most...