The Crows were in pursuit of a band of Cheyennes, who had attacked their village in the night and killed one of their people.
They came in vaunting and vainglorious style; displaying five Cheyenne scalps, the trophies of their vengeance.
The next day arrived a deputation of braves from the Cheyenne or Shienne nation; a broken tribe, cut up, like the Arickaras, by wars with the Sioux, and driven to take refuge among the Black Hills, near the sources of the Cheyenne River, from which they derive their name.
The object of the deputation was to give notice of an intended visit of the Shienne (or Cheyenne) tribe to the Arickara village in the course of fifteen days.
Lay a row of moccasins before me - Pawnee, Sioux, Shoshone,
Cheyenne, Blackfoot, and as many other tribes as you please - and I can name the tribe every moccasin belongs to by the make of it.
It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a
Cheyenne.
After awhile General Miles heard from Washington that, now he and the
Cheyennes were friends, he could put them wherever they wanted to go.
In an interview in lieder Henson defines himself as a "pariah" (identifying with that herausragender Mann Herman Melville) and seems willing to put the final seal on his exile from an America in which the
Cheyennes, he says, live in "a kind of apartheid ...
Cheyennes at Dark Water Creels: The Last Fight of the Red River War.
In 1890 he began a relationship with the
Cheyenne people--a long, friendly and fruitful relationship which resulted in an extensive two volume ethnography of
Cheyenne culture--The
Cheyenne Indians, Their History and Ways of Life; a fascinating collection of
Cheyenne stories--By
Cheyenne Campfires, and the volume under consideration here--The Fighting
Cheyennes, a history of
Cheyenne warfare in the 19th century.
The
Cheyennes were camped right at our stockade, the Arapahoes two miles below on the north side of the river; the Kiowas and Prairie Apaches about opposite the stockade on the south bank, and the Comanches further down on the south bank.
The Southern
Cheyennes. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.