The Cheyennes are a group of Indians of America of the family linguistic algonchina. The name Cheyenne derives from the French chien, " dog ", to motive for the fact what the Cheyennes ate dogs in ritual way. The Cheyennes call him same Tis-Tsis-Tas, the People. Arriving from the region of the Big Lakes around two or originally they were appropriated in the central Minnesota three hundred years ago, at the end of the XVII century you/they were forced from the siouxes and from the ojibwas to abandon the territory and finally you/they had pushed in the region between the tall courses of the rivers Arkansas and Platte. The Cheyennes in their native earth practised the agriculture, the hunting and the harvest, but in the new earths in which were found to live, they passed to the hunting to the buffalo and they started to conduct nomadic life. The Cheyennes were warlike (suggestive and bloody their practice of the dance of the sun). In the fifties of eight hundred, when they arrived in mass the gold diggers, the cheyennes were seen to steal their earths and since then the conflicts were made more and more sour, up to flow in the massacre, from the American troops, of a pacific group of men, women and children cheyenne to Sand Creek (Colorado) in 1864. In 1876, groups of warlike cheyennes and sioux they inflicted a defeat to the general George Custer and his/her troops in the battle of Little Bighorn. The Cheyennes were surrendered in 1877 and you/they had moved from the American government to the Indian Territories (in the today's Oklahoma), unfortunately in a zone infested by the malaria and others serious illnesses; driven by the heads Knife Blunt and Small Wolf, a part of the tribe it tried hopelessly a return in the territories of origin and he/she succeeded to getting the permission to settle in Montana, in the Reserve Lame Buck, while the remainder is departing some tribe he remained instead in Oklahoma.
