MS 3218 Narrative of Coyote, a Southern Cheyenne man, collected by Truman Michelson
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content: NAA MS 3218
name: label: Creator
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Coyote, circa 1859-
label: Creator
content: Haag, Mack, 1883-1948
topic: label: Topic
content: Sun Dance
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content: Adultery
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content: Rites and ceremonies
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content: Hunting
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content: Manners and customs
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content: Marriage
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content: Tipis
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content: Cheyenne Indians -- History
creator: label: Creator
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Coyote, circa 1859-
label: Creator
content: Haag, Mack, 1883-1948
culture: label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Sicangu Lakota (Brulé Sioux)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 127 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1931 Summer
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3218
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Narratives
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content: Manuscripts
label: Type
content: Autobiographies
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Negative microfilm on file.
label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogates are available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Narratives
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content: Manuscripts
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content: Autobiographies
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Narrative of Coyote, a 72 year old Southern Cheyenne man, handwritten in English by Truman Michelson and Mack Haag, also a Southern Cheyenne. The text includes a recounting of the history of the Cheyenne and stories from Coyote's life. Topics include skirmishes with U.S. soldiers, the construction of tipis, hunting, relations between men and women, and his observations of a Sioux Sun Dance at a Brule camp. Although the Bureau of American Ethnology catalog card indicates that this text was collected at the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana, it is likely incorrect. The notes are dated June, during which time Michelson was in Oklahoma working with the Southern Cheyenne (Explorations and field work of the Smithsonian Institution, 1932).