The Origin of The Tsistsistas, AITHP

The following video is from the Western Heritage Center’s American Indian Tribal Histories Project (AITHP), Northern Cheyenne team. This educational program covers the origin of the Tsistsistas; Sweet Medicine, the prophet of the Cheyenne people; and Bear Butte - the location where he received the ways of the Cheyenne people and the teachings he brought back to them, which include the Sacred Arrows Covenant, the Cheyenne Council of Forty-four and the tribal societies. Copyright 2005.
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Order of Speakers
00:00 Start
2:41 The Origin of Tsistsistas: People of Sweet Medicine
4:39 Silas Big Left Hand
6:53 Sweet Medicine: Prophet of the Cheyenne People
7:55 Fred White Wolf Sr.
9:49 Elva Stands in Timber
12:16 Fred White Wolf Sr.
13:21 Bear Butte: The location Sweet Medicine received the ways of the Cheyenne People
13:38 Silas Big Left Hand
17:10 Fred White Wolf Sr.
18:16 Silas Big Left Hand
20:49 Teachings Sweet Medicine brought to the Cheyenne people
21:15 Henrietta Mann speaking on the Sacred Arrows Covenant
23:56 Henrietta Mann speaking on the warrior societies
26:11 Credits