Powell Peter J. People of the sacred mountain: a history of the northern Cheyenne chiefs and warrior societies, 1830-1879, vol. 2

Harper & Row, 1981. — 757 p. — Volume 2.A powerful collection of accounts pertaining to the "The People" (Cheyennes) and their encounters with enemy tribes, White settlers, the U.S. government and then later big mining companies.
A history of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies 1830-1879. With an Epilogue 1969-1974.
This two-volume edition (total 1441 p.) is a great addition to any collection of books about Native Americans.Father Peter J. Powell is a well-known scholar, ethnohistorian, author, Anglican priest and Northern Cheyenne Chief. He is also Senior Research Associate of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian of the Newberry Library Chicago, President of the Foundation for the Preservation of American Indian Art and Culture, and spiritual director of St. Augustine’s Center for American Indians, Chicago, which he founded in 1961. Ordained to the priesthood in 1953, he has devoted his ministry to American Indians. A member of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs Society, since 1964, he is the adopted son of the late John Stands-in-Timber, the distinguished Northern Cheyenne tribal historian, and his wife, Josephine One Bear Stands-in-Timber. He is the author of six volumes concerning Cheyenne history, culture and theology. His two-volume work "People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warriors Societies, 1830 – 1879", won the National Book Award for history.