Leaving Everything Behind
Subtitle: The Songs and Memories of a Cheyenne Woman
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: February 1998
Language: eng
Format: Audio CD
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780806129860
Subjects: Biography: general; Ethnic studies; Folk music; Music; Ethnic; Biography; Women singers; Ethnic Issues; Little Coyote, Bertha,; Audio Adult: Other; USA; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Oklahoma; Ethnomusicology; 1912-; Cheyenne Indians; Cheyenne women
First sentence: Virginia Giglio, who holds a doctorate in music from the University of Oklahoma, lives in Boca Raton, Florida, where she teaches at Florida Atlantic University.
Description: Bertha Little Coyote is a pistol.

She is predictably outspoken and courageous, and her opinions are, to many people's chagrin, piercingly correct in most situations. In this memoir (and the accompanying compact disc) she shows herself also as a deeply tender-hearted, expressive musician who is fiercely committed to people - especially Cheyenne people. She has triumphed over eighty-four years of a difficult life, and has full hopes for an exciting spiritual existence after she "leaves everything on earth behind.".

Here are Bertha Little Coyote's songs and memories of government school, old-time Cheyenne life, fighting white boys, singing around the drum, dancing with the war mothers, being baptized in the lake, and dreaming important dreams.