A Sovereign People: Indigenous Nationhood, Traditional Law, and the Covenants of the Cheyenne Nation

by Leo K. Killsback

Overview

(Volume 2 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781682830376
Publisher:	Texas Tech University Press
Publication date:	10/25/2019
Series:	Plains Histories
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Leo K. Killsback grew up on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation and teaches American Indian Studies at Arizona State University. Devoted to the preservation and resurgence of Cheyenne language and culture, he sustains relationships within his nation by means of the collaborative methodologies that neither exploit nor marginalize.