Cheyenne Indians

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 700+ words | Copyright

Cheyenne Indians, Plains tribe of the Algonquian family, inhabited a region near the Black Hills and then migrated to the headwaters of the Platte River, where in 1830 they divided into northern and southern bands. Treaties with the southern group were constantly violated, and, after an indiscriminate massacre by U.S. troops, there began the bitter war which culminated in Custer's annihilation of a great number of the Cheyenne in 1868, and the revenge of others, who joined Sitting Bull in the Battle of Little Big Horn. The Cheyenne are the subject of a study by G.B. Grinnell and figure in the novels of Hamlin Garland, in Howard Fast's The Last Frontier, and in a fanciful form in Little Big Man by Thomas Berger.

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