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This was the first account of the Cheyenne in written record. They were listed the last of five tribes. They were camped above the mouth of the Wisconsin River and north of the Sioux. On the Wisconsin bank of the Mississippi
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Recorded by French fur traders
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Recorded by Jean Baptiste Louis Franquelin (French). Said to be in the western reaches between the Iowa (west) and the Otos (south). On the Yellow Medicine River.
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Recorded by Gov. Don Diego de Vargas of New Mexico in Santa Fe. He was told they would be back in a few months.
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One of the sighting of a Cheyenne village
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They were camped here for 50 years. La Verendryes noted this 1742-1743
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La Verendryes noted they were camped here for fifty years
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In ancient times Cheyennes had horses. They died off and the dogs were sed to carry large loads. In 1750 Spanish horses were discovered.
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There camp was said to be on Porcupine Creek
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The Cheyenne were seen camped at the Black Hills with the Kiowa
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This was the time period when the Chippewa almost exterminated this Cheyenne village. This happened on the Missouri River and fits in with a story I was told of how we came to hunt the buffalo
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Arapahoes were as far west as the Big Horn River
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They were seen here trading beaver furs
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The Arapahos were beyond the forks of the Cheyenne River
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They were recorded as being camped to the west and south of the Black Hills for the first quarter of the nineteenth century.
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This was recorded by LeRaye. There were said to be 300 lodges camped there
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During this time they were said to be deen stealing horses from Spanish settlements. This is were the Cheyennes made their first "treaty of peace" with Lewis and Clark concerning the Arikaras. They received gifts for making this treaty.
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This was also recorded by Alexander Henry
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Cheyenne were seen by Alexander Henry camped 200-250 miles south of the Black Hills
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Cheyennes were seen in great numbers making trades with the Arikaras
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Witnessed the arrival of Cheyenne at the Arikira villages. Cheyenne served as middle men for their allies, they brought with them robes made by the Arapaho. Intended for trade for the Arapaho to Fur Traders
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This was recorded by John Luttig. This fort was on the border of North and South Dakota on the border of the Missouri River.
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The Cheyennes roaming the Central and Southern Plains with Bear Tooth were far less numerous than the Arapahoes
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Cheyennes with Bear tooth Were a Band of Seceders from their own nation
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Cheyennes were widley scattered from the Missouri River to the Arkansas
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After a retaliation made by the Cheyenne on the Crow, several Crows were captured and held for a very long visit.
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The Stephen Long expedition encountered a large intertribal encampment of plains indians on the Arkansas River. Arapahoes, Kiowas, Comanches, Kiowa Apaches, Cheyenne, and a few Shoshonis were within the village.
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Santa Fe traders pleaded for protection from the predatory indians along there route of travel. Cheyennes, Kiowas, Arapahoes, and Comanches harrassed their wagon trains.
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It was Charles rather than William Bent who first came in contact with the Cheyennes in1824
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Cheyennes were hunting in the summer of 1825 west of the Black Hills
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Acknowledging the Sovereignty of the United States and its right to regulate all trade. WAs signed by four Cheyenne Chiefs.
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Cheyenne & Arapahoe began raiding the Kiowas & Comanches for horses.
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The Bents in partner with C'eran St. Vrain began to trade along the upper Arkansa River. Meeting Cheyennes led by Yellow Wolf, Little Wolf, And Wolf Chief
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When Bents Fort & Fort St. Vrain were consructed in the 1830's the Cheyennes no longer needed the goods provided by the post of the Missouri and shifted their residences and trade to the Platte and Arkansas rivers
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So few Cheyennes appeared at Fort Pierre in the winter of 1833 and 1834
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Pratte Chouteau Company arranges truce between Teton Sioux & the Cheyenne
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Fitzpatrick reported that the Cheyennes claimed land above Bents Fort for a distance of fifty miles.
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Grinnell visited the Cheyenne And Arapaho reservation in Oklahoma