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KUTUITAI II'TRODUC TIOIT
A hundred years ago on the rolling plains of what was later to become the Southwestern United States lived a nation of Cheyenne Indians who roamed the land in search of food.
The unending expanses of plain provided a freedom from greed to the Cheyenne whose numbers were few and whose wants were simple. Ceremonies and dances were frequent as the Indians had much to
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celebrate. The end of the wintry season, the finding of new buffalo herds and game, and the emerging of a new chief were occasions of great celebration.
When settlers moved into the region where the Cheyenne hunted, the braves rebelled by raiding the overwhelming numbers of white trespassers who invaded Cheyenne homelands. Success in the forays became a method by which the warriors could distinguish themselves. These braves had no particular hate for the settlers; their only reason for warring against them was that the white man was destroying the Indians' supply of food. Entire tribes of Cheyenne had been wiped out 'by white men whose guns were superior to the bows and arrows of the Cheyenne.
SCEITE I
Our story is about the Kutunais, a Cheyenne tri'e that live in the Texas Panhandle. Having lost many braves in battle, the trite is preparing to raid the^ieighboring San Mateo I-ission. Kichkinot, chief of the Kutunais, has instructed the braves not only to kill and destroy as much as possible, but to t'ring .back youn^ b~ys as hostages to replace those braves killed.
These boys are to be trained in Indian ways so that they