Our ancestors were there: family, history, and native nationhood -- I was rich in my relatives: kinship and the Cheyenne Nation -- We are still one nation: family in migration and diaspora -- We never surrendered: Two Moons's people and an alliance with General Nelson Miles -- We could not forget our native country: Dull Knife and Little Wolf's people -- And the long journey home -- We are not all fools: Little Chief's people and the language of kin -- It belonged to us: Northern Cheyenne homesteading as an assertion of autonomy -- Make us strong on this reservation: the Northern Cheyennes' struggle to remain in their homeland -- Conclusion: For the unborn -- Appendix: The 1874 agreement with the Northern Cheyennes.
Summary:
"Follows the Northern Cheyenne people with Dull Knife, Little Wolf, Little Chief, and Two Moons before removal from their Powder River homeland and traces their use of kin-based mechanisms to navigate U.S. colonial policy, particularly during removal and the early reservation period."--Provided by publisher.
Series:
New directions in Native American studies series ; volume 16
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