Contents Homelands 4 Society 6 Homes 8 Food 10 Clothing 12 Crafts 14 Family 16 Children 18 Traditions 20 War 22 Contact with Europeans 24 Little Wolf Dull Knife 26 The Cheyenne Today 28 Glossary 30 Online Resources 31 Index 32
CHAPTER 1 Homelands The Cheyenne are made up of two groups These are the Tsistsistas jis-jis-tus and the Sutaio suh-TYE-oh They got the name Cheyenne from their Lakota friends The Cheyenne originally lived north of the Missouri River in present-day Minnesota They were fishermen and farmers Their language is part of the Algonquian language family In the early 1600s the Cheyenne moved west along the Missouri River to the Black Hills They first got horses from the Kiowa around 1770 The horses allowed them to hunt buffalo on the Great Plains Soon after the Cheyenne separated into northern and southern groups The Northern Cheyenne went to present-day Montana Wyoming and North and South Dakota The Southern Cheyenne went into present-day Oklahoma Colorado Nebraska and Kansas 4
The site of a former Cheyenne village in western Oklahoma
