The Cheyennes: Indians of the Great Plains
- ISBN-10
- 0030226864
- ISBN-13
- 9780030226861
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 137
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978
- Publisher
- Wadsworth Publishing Company
- Author
- Edward Adamson Hoebel
Description
The attitudes of the Cheyennes toward war, courtship and marriage, and the maintenance of their social order are the central concern of a cultural study
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