A Sacred People
Author | : Leo Killsback |
Publisher | : Plains Histories |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
ISBN-10 | : 1682830357 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781682830352 |
Rating | : 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Download or read book A Sacred People written by Leo Killsback and published by Plains Histories. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (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.