Cheyenne Nation

Ancestral Homeland: Kansas to North Dakota

Various spellings: Cheyenne, Chayenne

Linguistic group: Algonkian

Brief Timeline

 * 1804: Lewis and Clark encountered the Cheyenne tribe near the Black Hills of South Dakota.
 * 1860: Battles of Ash Hollow and Sand Creek
 * 1876: the Northern Cheyenne helped defeat General George Armstron Custer's forces at the Little Bighorn
 * 1884: Northern Cheyenne granted a reservation lands in Montana

Reservations
Southern Cheyenne had settled in southern then moved to Oklahoma

Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southern Montana.

Additional References to the History of the Tribe
Frederick Webb Hodge, in his Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, gave a more complete history of the Cheyenne tribe, with estimations of the population of the tribe at various time periods. Additional details are given in David Bushnell's Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi.

Tribal Headquarters
Northern Cheyenne Tribe Box 128 Lame Deer, Montana 59043 Phone: (406) 477-6284 Fax: (406) 477-6210

Records
Correspondence and Census

Treaties


 * 1825 July 6, at mouth to Teton River
 * 1851 September 17, at Fort Laramie
 * September 24, 1857, referred to in Pawnee treaty
 * 1861 February 18, at Fort Wise
 * 1865 October 14, at Little Arkansas River
 * 1865 October 17,
 * 1867 October 28, at Council Camp

Vital Records


 * Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency: M595, births and deaths 1925-1934, FHL Film: 574191
 * Cheyenne River Agency, M595, births and deaths  1925-1932, FHL Film: 574198
 * Cheyenne River Agency, M595, births and deaths 1932-1941, FHL Film: 574199

Important Web Sites

 * History of the Cheyenne Indians
 * Official web site of the Northern Cheyenne Nation
 * Wikipedia article on the Cheyenne Nation
 * cheyenneancestors