Cheyenne -- Rites and ceremonies, Indigenous peoples -- Rites and ceremonies, Spirituality -- Indigenous, Cheyenne -- Medicine, Traditional medicine, Sun Dance, Cheyenne, Buffalo dance, Cheyenne -- Religion 

"Sweet Medicine is the most comprehensive record ever made of the ceremonies of the Northern Cheyennes. Volume One recounts tribal history against the background of the two great spiritual tragedies in Cheyenne life, the loss of the Sacred Arrows and the desecration of the Sacred Buffalo Hat."--WorldCat.org. 

Contents:
Volume 1 : Part I: The two great mysteries and Northern Cheyenne history, 1830-1880 --
The restless time --
Before we came to the buffalo --
The whole camp was crying - Two arrow keepers are dead --
Is'siwun is mutilated --
The end of southern Cheyenne freedom --
Is'siwun is renewed --
The fight with Long Hair --
Blood on Is'siwun's lodge --
Three Fingers' campaign --
Box Elder's warning --
Attacking Morning Star's camp --
The fight at Belly Butte --
Before surrender --
To the south, then home again --
Morning Star's surrender --
Morning Star's people are killed --
Is'siwun comes north - Part II: New battles to be fought: episodes from the 1880-1965 era --
Coal Bear's people, 1883-1896 --
The sun dance is forbidden, 1897 --
Wounded Eye, ca. 1901-1920 --
Standing against the thunder, 1909 --
Fighting for the sun dance, 1907-1934 --
White men in Is'siwun's tipi, ca. 1920-1930 --
Sacrificing in the hills, 1947 --
Coal Bear's family guards Is'siwun again, 1934-1958 --
The sacred arrows come north, 1956-1957 --
Is'siwun is opened, July, 1959 --
Power for new days.