Life of George Bent
Subtitle: Written from His Letters
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: March 1983
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780806115771
Subjects: Biography: general; History; Native Americans - Plains; Biography / Autobiography; Wars; History: American; North America; USA; General; Biography; United States - General; 1843-1918; Bent, George,; Cheyenne Indians
First sentence: OUR PEOPLE call themselves Tsis tsis tas, meaning "people alike" or simply "our people," but by the whites we have always been termed "Cheyennes," from a Sioux word, Shai ena, which means "people speaking a strange tongue."