Cheyenne ~ Northern ~ Southern ~ Sioux Indian Tribe

Northern Cheyenne.  The popular designation for that part of the Cheyenne which continued to range along the upper Platte after the rest of the tribe (Southern Cheyenne) had permanently moved down to Arkansas river, about 1835.  They are now settled on a reservation in Montana.  From the fact that the Omisis division is most numerous among them, the term is frequently used by the Southern Cheyenne as synonymous.

Cheyenne Sioux.  Possibly a loose expression for Cheyenne River Sioux i.e., the Sioux on Cheyenne Rivers reservation, South Dakota; but more probably, considering the date intended to designate those Sioux chiefly of the Oglala division who were accustomed to associate and intermarry with the Cheyenne.  The term occurs in Ind. Aff. Rept., 41, 1856

Southern Cheyenne. That part of the Cheyenne which ranged in the south portion of the tribal territory after 1835, now permanently settled in Oklahoma.  They are commonly known as Sówoniǎ 'southerners (from Sowón, 'south"), by the Northern Cheyenne, and sometimes as Hevhaitanio, from there most numerous divisions.

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