While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
"This nation has received a variety of names from travelers and the neighboring
tribes, as Shyenne, Shienne, Cheyenne, Chayenne, Shara, Shawhay, Sharsha, and
by the different bands of Dakotas, Shaí-en-a
or Shai-é-la. With the Blackfeet, they are
the most western branch of the great Algonkin family. When first known, they
were living on the Chayenne or Cayenne River, a branch of the Bed River of the
North, but were driven west of the Mississippi by the Sioux, and about the close
of the last century still farther west across the Missouri, where they were
found by those enterprising travelers Lewis and Clark in 1803. On their map
attached to their report they locate them near the eastern face of the Black
Hills, in the valley of the great Sheyenne River, and state their number at
1,500 souls." Their first treaty with the United States was made in 1825, at the
mouth of the Teton River. They were then at peace with the Dakotas, but warring
against the Pawnee and others. Were then estimated, by Drake, to number 3,250.
During the time of Long's expedition to the Rocky Mountains, in 1819 and 1820, a
small portion of the Cheyenne seem to have separated themselves from the rest of
their nation on the Missouri, and to have associated themselves with the
Arapahoe who wandered about the tributaries of the Platte and Arkansas, while
those who remained affiliated with the Ogalalla, these two divisions remaining
separated until the present time. Steps are now being taken, however, to bring
them together on a new reservation in the Indian Territory.
Up to 1862, they were generally friendly to the white settlers, when outbreaks
occurred, and then for three or tour years a costly and bloody war was carried
on against them, a notable feature of which was the Sand Creek or Chivington
massacre, November 29, 1864. "Since that time there has been constant trouble.
In '67, General Hancock burned the village of the Dog Soldiers, on Pawnee Fork,
and another war began, in which General Custer defeated them at Washita, killing
Black Kettle and 37 others." The northern bands have been generally at peace
with the whites, resisting many overtures to join their southern brethren.
List of illustrations
118, 120. Hah-Ket-Home-Mah. Little Robe. (Front.) Southern Cheyenne
119, 121. Hah-Ket-Home-Mah. Little
Robe. (Profile.) Southern Cheyenne.
109. Hah-Ket-Home-Mah. Little Robe.
Southern Cheyenne.
Descriptive Catalogue, Photographs Of North American Indians. United States Geological Survey
of the Territories, 1877 by W. H. Jackson, Photographer of the Survey,
F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist.
