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Hyemeyohsts Storm was also known as Charles, or Chuck, Storm.

He is best known as the author of Seven Arrows, published in 1972. Storm claimed Indigenous (Cheyenne) identity and Seven Arrows was initially published as a work of autobiographical non-fiction. Seven Arrows is credited with fabricating and popularizing contemporary depictions of the medicine wheel.

Cheyenne members have been vocal about Storm's fictitious portrayal of the medicine wheel. It has since come to light that Storm has no familial connection to the Plains people he described. Publishers Harper and Row changed the book's category to fiction and Storm spent two years in Canada. However, Storm went on to write two more books under different publishers as a self-identified expert on Indigenous cosmology.

Storm was "charismatic" and a storyteller who claimed to not know how to read and write well. However, he taught at the University of Iowa for two years, 1970 and 1972. Harry MacCormak and Robert Sayre helped Storm write Seven Arrows.