Cheyenne Women's Music

Everyday activities and the songs that go with them are the subjects of this unique view of contemporary Southern Cheyenne women's music. In addition to musical transcriptions and textual translations, the author provides the songs' history and the circumstances and backgrounds of the singer-composers, who shared the songs' meanings and the social settings in which they are used in the ongoing Cheyenne musical tradition. Leaving Everything Behind: The Songs and Memories of a Cheyenne Woman (Bertha Little Coyote) can also be found on this site.