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Cheyenne Autumn

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Moving tragedy
One cannot recommend this book too highly which has been written with a true feeling for the Cheyenne Nation. As I read the book I felt that I was part of those unfortunate people, whose only crime was that they wanted to live their own way on their own land. Any student of Native American History must add this to their library.

What a fabuous, transporting read!
Sandoz captures both the big pictures and subtle nuances of the atmosphere in which these unbelieveable, but unfortunately real, events take place. She thoroughly reconstructs the characters and so completely immerses herself and the reader in events that reading Cheyenne Autumn is better than any movie or play could ever be -- you see and hear and feel as though you are part of the journey, rooting the Cheyenne on and on, and (even if you know going in know how things turn out) hoping against hope that the US government and the military will just leave the poor people alone. However sad the story is at its base (and it is tragic), the dignity and resourcefulness and love among the Cheyenne is overwhelming. Truly, they were the "civilized" people, and Sandoz conveys this without every stepping a foot on a soapbox. It's a must read for anyone who has an interest in Native American history or culture. It's also a must read for anyone who doesn't have such interests, because their ignorance will be washed away completely.

Another powerfully moving story
I have tried to analyze how it is that Sandoz manages to take a story, the mere facts of which I have read many times, and make it so powerfully moving that you find it haunting you long after the book is finished. Besides her expert ability to write in the language of her subjects, she develops all characters to their fullest. We follow them through their every day lives, through their hopes and fears, and most of all through their relationships to each other, until we feel we have become a part of it all. When lives end, usually tragically, we not only feel the loss ourselves, but we grieve for the pain of those left behind. When I read Sandoz's biography of Crazy Horse, I felt each loss he felt, from the death of his brother, to the agony of the decision to bring his followers into the agency. In this book, when the Cheyenne died in their last stand, I felt as their survivors must have felt, both grieved at the loss, but proud that they had died fighting in the tradition of their people, Also, once again as with Crazy Horse, I felt, as no simple telling of the facts could get across, what a great mistake it was not to let these cultures survive, and how foolish and arrogant the whites were to spend lives, money and ammunition to keep a few hundred impoverished people from returning to their homeland.

Read this book!
Sandoz does in this book what a hundred modern authors bound by Political Correctness could never accomplish. She puts forth a well written and never-flinching story about the terrible final moments of the Northern Cheyenne. Excellent book. See also: Crazy Horse: Strange One of the Oglallas, another feat.

The Cheyenne way during the last Indian wars.
The carefully crafted prose of Mari Sandoz brings the rhythms and images of the Cheyenne language and Cheyenne storytelling to a non-Indian audience. To read is to absorb the rhythms and images, to feel an illusion of becoming more Indian as chapter follows chapter, to understand with an Indian mind the genocidal subjugation and impoverishment of a tribe that hoped for peace.

This is a story of chiefs, warriors, women and children. It is a story of tragic misunderstandings, murders, fights, flights, and survival. Written in 1953, long before political correctness, and based on solid research and a childhood spent in the company of Cheyenne who survived the wars, the narrative does not indulge in cheap moral judgements - the stories of the Indian men and women who lived and struggled and died cut straight into the reader's heart in a way that is beyond judgement.


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