Four Original Societies
The prophet Sweet Medicine was said to designate the four original Cheyenne warrior societies. Over the ages, some have developed branches or have transformed.
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“Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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