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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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Handbook
of American Indians, 1906
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