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CHEYENNE (Sioux for " of alien speech ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 116 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHEYENNE (See also:Sioux for " of See also:alien speech ")  , a tribe of See also:North See also:American See also:Indians of Algonquian stock . They formerly lived on the See also:Cheyenne See also:river, North Dakota . Driven See also:west by the Dakotas, they were found by See also:early explorers at the eastern See also:base of the See also:Black Hills, See also:South Dakota . See also:Part of them later moved south and allied themselves with the Arapahoes . Their whole See also:history has been one of See also:war with their red and See also:white neighbours . They are a powerful athletic See also:race, mentally See also:superior to the See also:average American See also:Indian . They are divided into eleven subdivisions and formerly had a See also:council of chiefs . They number some 3000, and are divided into See also:northern and See also:southern Cheyennes; the former being on a See also:reservation in See also:Montana, the latter in See also:Oklahoma . In 1878-79 a See also:band of the former revolted, and some seventy-five of them were killed . See Handbook of American Indians (See also:Washington, 1907) ; also INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN .

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