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Cheyenne · cheyenne · Tsistsistas · Tsis tsis'tasCheyenne
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In the record
The United States made 8 treaties and agreements that name Cheyenne as a party, from Cheyenne at Mouth of the Teton River (1825) to Black Hills Agreement (Act of February 28, 1877), Lakota.
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 5 cessions of land from Cheyenne: about 56 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 2 of them came through treaties and agreements. The largest was Land of the Arapaho of Upper Arkansas and Cheyenne of Upper Arkansas in several states, ceded 1861 (area 426), about 48 million acres, ceded under Treaty of Fort Wise (Arapaho and Cheyenne of the Upper Arkansas), 1861.
The atlas records 2 broken treaty promises involving Cheyenne: Fort Laramie 1851: Pike's Peak gold rush invades treaty territory and Fort Wise (1861), Sand Creek (1864) and the Little Arkansas reparations (1865).
Today, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes and Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana carry this history, as their own pages or research records say. Land has come back: Right Relationship Boulder Land Group.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Names
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Self-names
- TsistsistasCheyenne (Latin)
Names in treaties and records
- Tsis tsis'tasCheyenne (respelling)
Land recorded as ceded
- Treaty or agreement4 million
- Treaty under documented pressure48 million
- Executive order4 million
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
5 cessions. Follow Cheyenne through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes
- Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana
Working with these nations
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Nation government Seeking return of about 6,700 acres at Fort Reno
- Right Relationship Boulder (Land Group) Native-led Funds tribal youth camps and gatherings, plant-gathering access, trail content with tribes, pushes for tribal… Give on their site Website
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
These links were matched automatically by name or date and have not yet been reviewed by a person.
Party to 8
- Cheyenne at Mouth of the Teton River (1825)1825
- Treaty of Fort Laramie (Horse Creek), 18511851
- Treaty of Fort Wise (Arapaho and Cheyenne of the Upper Arkansas), 18611861
- Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapaho at Little Arkansas River, Kansas (1865)1865
- Treaty of Little Arkansas (Cheyenne and Arapaho), 18651865
- Treaty of Medicine Lodge (Cheyenne and Arapaho), 18671867
- Treaty with the Northern Cheyenne and Northern Arapaho (Fort Laramie), 18681868
- Black Hills Agreement (Act of February 28, 1877), Lakota1876
Land recorded in this nation’s name 6
- Land of the Arapaho and Cheyenne in Colorado, ceded 1865 (area 477)1851as named in the 1899 record
- Land of the Arapaho of Upper Arkansas and Cheyenne of Upper Arkansas in several states, ceded 1861 (area 426)1851as named in the 1899 record
- Reservation of the Arapaho, Arikara and others in Montana and North Dakota (area 300)1851as named in the 1899 record
- Reservation of the Navaho in New Mexico (area 518)1868matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Arapaho and Cheyenne in Oklahoma, ceded 1891 (area 525)1869as named in the 1899 record
- Reservation of the Cheyenne (northern) in Montana (area 658a)1884as named in the 1899 record
Named in 3
Present-day governments that carry this history 2
Includes 1
Organizations that work with this nation 1
Sources
- tribalnations.mt.gov/Directory/NorthernCheyenneTribereference work
The tribe call themselves "Tsis tsis'tas" (Tse-TSES-tas) which means "the beautiful people".
- cheyenneandarapaho-nsn.gov/language-culturereference work
Tsistsistas, is the Cheyenne word meaning “Human Beings” or “The People.”
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