A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and th

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(Volume 1 of 2) Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world--ways of living and thinking that became casualties of colonization and forced assimilation. Spanning more than a millennium of antiquity and recovering stories and ideas interpreted from a Cheyenne worldview, the works' joint purpose is rooted as much in a decolonization roadmap as it is in preservation of culture and identity for the next generations of Cheyenne people. Dividing the story of the Cheyenne Nation into pre- and post-contact, A Sacred People and A Sovereign People lay out indigenously conceived possibilities for employing traditional worldviews to replace unhealthy and dysfunctional ones bred of territorial, cultural, and psychological colonization.

Author: Leo K. Killsback
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 11/25/2019
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781682830352
ISBN10: 1682830357
BISAC Categories:
- History | Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation

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