Cheyenne

shi-en, a western Indian tribe belonging to the same family as the Delawares, Shawnees, Ojibways, and Blackfeet. When first known, they lived on the Sheyenne River in the eastern part of South Dakota. They were driven westward by the Sioux into the Black Hills country. Originally agricultural, they became possessed of ponies and acquired nomadic habits. Their raids extended as far southwestward as the borders of Mexico, and their claim to territory extended from the forks of the Platte to northern Montana. When the whites wanted the country the usual routine of treaties, broken faith, massacres, and extermination was followed. Hancock and Custer were engaged in subduing these Indians. The Cheyennes are physically a tall, well built race. At present there are somewhat over 1,000 of them on a reservation in the Tongue River valley, Custer County, Montana; others, perhaps 2,000 in number, are settled with their relatives, the Arapaho Indians, on the Canadian River in Oklahoma. The name is perpetuated in Cheyenne, the picturesque capital of Wyoming. See Indians