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The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College Board of Regents voted to dissolve the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College at the end of the 2015 spring semester. [13] However, in September of 2019 the tribe developed a replacement by chartering Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma as its school.
Principal Chiefs of Arapaho Tribe, engraving by James D. Hutton, c. 1860. Arapaho interpreter Warshinun, also known as Friday, is seated at right.. Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Reservation were the lands granted the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Arapaho by the United States under the Medicine Lodge Treaty signed in 1867.
The Council of Forty-four is one of the two central institutions of traditional Cheyenne Native American tribal governance, the other being the military societies such as the Dog Soldiers. The Council of Forty-four is the council of chiefs, comprising four chiefs from each of the ten Cheyenne bands plus four principal [ 1 ] or "Old Man" chiefs ...
In 1868, the U.S. carried out a surprise attack on Cheyenne families near the Washita River. The land is now a national historic site.
Mille Lacs Band Tribal Court (2008–2014) Minnesota: inactive: Patricia Paul [58] Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Tribal Court Oregon: active: Mary Peltola [59] [60] Orutsararmiut Native Council Tribal Court (2020–2021) Alaska: retired: James Phillips [61] Grays Harbor County Superior Court (1929–1950) Washington: deceased
On one cold November morning in 1864, more than 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal members, mostly women and children, were murdered in one of the worst massacres in American history.
Mikkanen served as a judge of the Court of Indian Offenses for the Anadarko Area Tribes from 1988 to 1994, a federally administered tribal court which is part of the United States Department of the Interior. He also served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes from 1991 to 1994. He published numerous opinions ...
The Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre, the battle of Sand Creek or the massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry [5] under the command of U.S. Volunteers Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a ...