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The Northern Cheyenne, known in Cheyenne either as Notameohmésėhese, meaning "Northern Eaters" (or simply as Ohmésėhese meaning "Eaters"), live in southeastern Montana on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. Tribal enrollment figures, as of late 2014, indicate that there are approximately 10,840 members, of which about 4,939 reside on ...
The Cheyenne (Tsitsistas/ The People) were once agrarian, or agricultural, people located near the Great Lakes in present-day Minnesota. Grinnell notes the Cheyenne language is a unique branch of the Algonquian language family and, The Nation itself, is descended from two related tribes, the Tsitsistas and the Suh' Tai. The latter is believed ...
Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Reservation were the lands granted the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Arapaho by the United States under the Medicine Lodge Treaty signed in 1867. The tribes never lived on the land described in the treaty and did not want to.
They live today in the Lame Deer, Montana (Mo'ȯhtávȯheomenéno – ″black-lodge-place″) district on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. Lame Deer, the tribal and government agency headquarters, was also the place where rations were given out and is known as Meaveʼhoʼeno – ″the giving place″ or ″giving-whiteman-place″.
In 1840, however, the Comanche gained important allies. An agreement with the southern branches of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes ended a wasting war on the Comanche's northern frontier and gained about 2,000 new allies. The Cheyenne and Arapaho were allowed to live in Comancheria and, as customary, the peace makers exchanged gifts.
The Algonquian-speaking Arapaho lived for more than 1,000 years throughout the western part of Nebraska. [3] In a prehistoric period; Nebraska was home to the Arikara, who spoke a Caddoan language, as did the Pawnee; after 1823 they returned from present-day North Dakota to live with the Skidi Pawnee for two years. [4]
Nov. 22—CHEYENNE — There are only three live horse racing tracks across Wyoming, and none of them are in Laramie County. That may change soon, however, as two separate proposals were discussed ...
The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways (2008, World Wisdom) is a condensed version of a two volume non-fiction book (The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life) written by the anthropologist George Bird Grinnell, based on his account of his time spent among the last of the nomadic Cheyenne Native Americans.