Stands in Timber, John and Margot Liberty - Cheyenne Memories online_store Writers Project

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a coal‐eyed Irishman for whom oration is an exercise in salvation

in Charlottesville

he declares

With no warning of the tension and shock to come

Stands in Timber, John and Margot Liberty - Cheyenne Memories online_store Writers ProjectThis classic work is an oral history of the Cheyenne Indians from legendary times to the early reservation years, a collaborative effort by the Cheyenne tribal historian, John Stands in Timber, and anthropologist Margot Liberty. Published in 1967, the book now has an updated bibliography and a new preface by Liberty, in which she shares her recollections of Stands in Timber and describes the circumstances of the Cheyenne over the past thirty years.