Sheyene River Valley Research Paper

The Sheyenne River Valley was originally occupied by the Cheyenne tribe, they were once known as the Chaa, and remained there until the early 18th century. The Cheyenne tribe’s first encounter with white people in 1680 didn’t end nicely for them. The encounter ended up with the Cheyenne tribe being moved from their home and west to the Great Plains. To make life easier in the Great Plains the Cheyenne switched lifestyles and became nomadic buffalo hunters and started living in tepees instead of earth - covered lodges. They were separated into warrior clans but, in 1832, the Cheyenne tribe was split into two groups, the Northern Cheyenne and Southern Cheyenne. The Northern Cheyenne was found along the Platte River while the Southern Cheyenne
was along the Arkansas River in Colorado and Kansas. These are only a small, simple list of things that make the Cheyenne tribe what they are today.