1. Cheyenne OF THE GREAT PLAINS
Andres F. Giraldo, and Juan S. Lopez

2. LOCATION
The Cheyenne tribes where located on the western part of the great plains, the great plains where from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River (All central part of the states. And part of Canada)

3. History Since the 1800’s they moved freely through out the country.
The Cheyenne and other tribes from the great plains lived for hundreds of years in the central U.S.
Spanish people introduced horses to the Americas in 1500.
On the 1750’s they captured some horses and started to mount them.
Since the 1800’s they moved freely through out the country.

4. Rituals, Traditions
They were divided into 10 main bands that traveled about the country side with their horses following buffalo herds.
A normal band was composed by hundreds of people living in dozens of teepees.
When the Cheyenne married they went near the women’s mother home.
They perceived the universe as a circle with 4 directions.
Some important ceremonies were: Arrow Renewal, the New Life Lodge, and the Animal Dance.
They perceived visions in which an animal adopted a member of the tribe.

5. Tribe
The Cheyenne original name was Shahiyena, then slowly changed to Cheyenne
After many times they called themselves Tsitsistas it means “the people.”
Sioux Indians called them Shahiyena and it means “people of strange speech.”
In the year 1800 they fought the U.S army a lot of times.
They were pushed to reservations in Oklahoma and Montana.

6. Hunting & Farming Hunted buffalo on foot, then on the horses.
Fished on rivers and streams.
Squash, Corn, and Beans where there main crops.
They stopped farming and abandoned their villages in 1700’s, and followed buffalo herds.

7. Language and Religion
The language that they speak, is Cheyenne, but when the europeans arrived they could speak both Cheyenne and english.
The people from the Cheyenne tribe were believers of the Christianity.
The Cheyenne have 14 letters in their alphabet, this language belongs to the Algonquian language group.
This language is spoken too, by the Sutaio tribe.

8. Culture
The Cheyenne have gone through four stages of culture. The first was when they lived in the eastern woodlands and they farmed, and hunted. The second stage was when they lived in the northern part of the plains, and there they hunted bison, and followed their herds. The third stage was when they started to use the horses the europeans brought, and they stopped farming, because the bison where easier to hunt by horse, than by foot. And finally the fourth stage was when the europeans changed their ways of live and sent them to reservations in Montana, and Oklahoma.
They made tools and weapons; especially knife’s made from buffalo ribs. A normal band was composed by hundreds of people living in dozens of teepees.

9. Teepees and travois history.
The travois are a type of sleds pulled by dogs or horses used to carry belongings, and teepees.
Before the teepees, the Cheyenne lived on houses made from log, dirt, and grass.
Teepees where made from 10 to 20 sticks, and then covered with buffalo skin.

10. Question 1: Location according to 5 themes of geography
-The Cheyenne live in what today is called the
central US, and in a little part of the eastern US
too, between the Rocky Mountains and the
Mississippi river.
They first lived near Lake Superior then in late 1600’s they moved to Minnesota and after that to the Dakotas.
The moved freely through out the country, by sled or by horses.
They planted crops such as squash, and hunted buffalo.

11. Question 2: Key Individual
An important key individual for the Cheyenne tribe was William F. Cody also known as “Buffalo Bill” because he killed a lot of buffalo and left the tribes from the great plains with a little bit of resources.
He got his nickname, by killing 4,280 buffalo in 18 months.
He died from kidney failure in the year of 1917.

12. Question 3: How did europeans decisions affected the Cheyenne?
The decisions that the europeans took, affected the Cheyenne because they took away their ways of life, their culture, most of their food, and they sent them to reservations in Oklahoma and Montana.

13. Question 4: immediate and long term effects
The Cheyenne: They have a long term effect and it was that the y learned a new language when the europeans arrived, and learned how to mount horses.
The Europeans: They learned to get food easy and quick thanks to Buffalo Bill, because he killed a lot of buffalo, and forced the Cheyenne to learn new cultures, and ways of living.

14. Question 5: Some things europeans did trying to settle in the Americas.
They did a lot of things, these are some of the most important:
Teach new ways of living, and culture.
Reservations were now the homes of the Cheyenne.
And separate their families.
These are things that the europeans did with the native Americans when they arrived to the Americas.

16. Information Bibliographies
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