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Cheyenne|ʃaɪˈæn, ʃaɪˈɛn|
Also Chajenne, Chayenne, Chean, Chian, Chien, etc.
[Canadian Fr., f. Dakota Šahi′yena.]
An Algonquian Indian people inhabiting the area between the Missouri and Arkansas rivers; a member of this people; their language. Also attrib. or as adj.
1778J. Carver Trav. Int. Parts N. Amer. 80 These..are termed..the Mawhaws, and the Schians. The other three bands, whose names are the Schianese, the Chongousceton, and the Waddapawjestin, dwell higher up. 1804Lewis & Clark Jrnl. 15 Oct. in Hist. Exped. Lewis & Clark (1893) I. iv. 168 We saw..a little below the creek, an old village of the Sharha or Chayenne Indians. 1812J. C. Luttig Jrnl. Exped. Upper Missouri 15 Oct. (1920) 86 A Band of Chajennes about 12 Lodges arrived. 1813Missouri Gaz. (St. Louis) 15 May 1/2 Finding an inland tribe of indians calling themselves Shawhays, but known among the whites by the appellations of Cheyen-nes, we procured from these people an accession of forty horses. 1821J. Fowler Jrnl. (1848) 59 We have heare now about seven hundred lodges. ..with the addiction of the Cheans—about two hundred lodges. 1857J. A. Gove in Coll. New H. Hist. Soc. (1928) XII. 28 The messenger reports 840 head of cattle stampeded about 30 miles beyond Kearney by the Cheyennes (pronounced as though written Shy-ans). 1891Harper's Mag. XXII. 204/1 The Texas saddle has a much flatter seat than the Brazos tree; the Cheyenne saddle a still flatter one, with a high cantle and a different cut of pommel arch. 1933Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 A few detached languages in the west: Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. 1946G. Foreman Last Trek Indians 296 Colorado troops attacked the Cheyenne in May. 1949M. Mead Male & Female ii. 23 The Ashanti and the Cheyenne Indian, have histories as long as our own, only different. 1969R. C. Bell Board & Table Games II. v. 79 This gambling game was played by the squaws of the Cheyenne Indians for small stakes. |