The Cheyenne Indians, in sharp contrast to other Plains tribes,
are renowned for their clear sense of form and structure in their institutions.

Chapters included in this book are, The Council of Forty-Four,
The Military Societies, Homicide and the Supernatural, Marriage
and Sex, Property and Inheritance, The Law-Jobs, and the Cheyenne Way.

More than a study of the jurisprudence of this single tribe, this book
deals with the evolution of law and legal procedure among various
other primitive peoples of the world. The cases themselves are so
beautifully alive that an emementary school child will forget to go
to sleep reading them; so will the adult.