Cheyennen.

1778 J. Carver Trav. 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.

1804 W. Clark Jrnl. 16 Oct. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III. 175 A little above our Camp on the L.S. passed an old Shyenne Village.

1812 J. C. Luttig Jrnl. Exped. Upper Missouri 15 Oct. (1920) 86 A Band of Chajennes about 12 Lodges arrived.

1813 Missouri 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.

1821 J. Fowler Jrnl. (1848) 59 We have heare now about seven hundred lodges. ..with the addiction of the Cheans—about two hundred lodges.

1857 J. 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).

1891 Harper's Mag. July 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.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 A few detached languages in the west: Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Arapaho.

1946 G. Foreman Last Trek of Indians 296 Colorado troops attacked the Cheyenne in May.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female ii. 23 The Ashanti and the Cheyenne Indian, have histories as long as our own, only different.

1969 R. C. Bell Board & Table Games (ed. 2) II. v. 79 This gambling game was played by the squaws of the Cheyenne Indians for small stakes.