The Cegiha Language: Volume VI

"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children."

-Crazy Horse, Chief Lakota (Sioux) Native Americans (1890)

The Cegiha Language (1890), by Rev. James Owen Dorsey is the sixth volume of a nine-part series entitled Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). This comprehensive book is comprised of myths, stories, and historical texts the author collected from various tribes of the Siouan language family, ...