Northern Cheyenne Tribe

Ancestral Lands: Great Lakes region, and thence to Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Colorado.

Brief Timeline
1851: Treaty at Fort Laramie which supposedly gave Cheyenne and other tribes land between the Platte and Arkansas Rivers, in what became Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, and western Kansas.

1859: Colorado gold rush displaced the Indians from their promised lands

1876: Battle of the Little Big Horn took place on 25 June 1876

1877: Cheyenne surrendered and were removed to the Southern Cheyenne Reservation in Indian Territory

1878: In the fall of 1878, part of the Northern Cheyenne were allowed to go back north.

1884: Tongue River Reservation was established for the Northern Cheyenne on 16 November by executive order of President Chester A. Arthur.

1884: St. Labre Catholic Indian Boarding School was established at site of Ashland, Montana

1900: The Tongue River Reservation was enlarged by executive order on 19 March 1900 to include from the west bank of the Tongue River to the eastern boundary of the Crow Reservation

1935: Constitution and bylaws of the Northern Cheyenne was approved on 23 November 1935, under the Indian Reorganization Act.

Reservations
This tribe is primarily associated with the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southern Montana.

Tribal Headquarters
Northern Cheyenne Tribe P.O. Box 128 Lame Deer, MT 59043 Phone: 406.477.6284 Fax: 406.477.6210

Important Web Sites

 * Constitutions and By-Laws of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Tongue River Reservation, Approved November 23, 1935
 * Northern Cheyenne Tribe Official Website
 * Cheyenne Tribe Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia article on Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation