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In this history of Indian tribes forced to leave their ancestral homes in Wyoming and relocate to Oklahoma, Mann (Univ. of Montana), a full-blooded Cheyenne, emphasizes educational history and draws on her own recollections and those of her forebears. The introduction, a socio-anthropological portrait of these tribes, makes clear the spirit and endurance of the Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples and the devastating impact of government policies. Mann sketches an education largely imposed by edicts of, first, the Office [Bureau] of Indian Affairs (founded in 1824) and, after 1849, the Department of the Interior. The assimilationist policies were designed to remove every vestige of "Indianness." According to Mann, this tripartite process included "education, Christianity, and civilization." Mann provides a comprehensive discussion of the role of religious missionaries, delineating the efforts of Quakers, Mennonites, Episcopalians, and others to convert the Cheyenne and Arapaho, through the schools. However, Mann remains convinced that despite "attempts to coercively assimilate the [tribes] through education, they have remained a distinctly identifiable people with a living history." Recommended in conjunction with Estelle Fuchs and Robert J. Havighurts's To Live on This Earth (CH, Mar'73). Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. F. Cordasco emeritus, Montclair State University