CHEYENNE (

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• SIOUX

Sioux for " of

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• ALIEN (Lat. alienus)

alien speech ")  , a tribe of North American Indians of Algonquian stock . They formerly lived on the Cheyenne river, North Dakota . Driven west by the Dakotas, they were found by early explorers at the eastern base of the Black Hills, South Dakota . Part of them later moved south and allied themselves with the Arapahoes . Their whole history has been one of war with their red and white neighbours . They are a powerful athletic race, mentally superior to the average American Indian . They are divided into eleven subdivisions and formerly had a council of chiefs . They number some 3000, and are divided into northern and southern Cheyennes; the former being on a reservation in Montana, the latter in Oklahoma . In 1878-79 a band of the former revolted, and some seventy-five of them were killed . See Handbook of American Indians (Washington, 1907) ; also INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN .