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The Cheyenne River Indian Reservation was created by the United States in 1889 by breaking up the Great Sioux Reservation, following the attrition of the Lakota in a series of wars in the 1870s. The reservation covers almost all of Dewey and Ziebach counties in South Dakota .
The Cheyenne River (Lakota: Wakpá Wašté; "Good River" [2]), also written Chyone, [3] referring to the Cheyenne people who once lived there, [4] is a tributary of the Missouri River in the U.S. states of Wyoming and South Dakota. It is approximately 295 miles (475 km) long and drains an area of 24,240 square miles (62,800 km 2). [5]
The band appeared to number 800 people. At the usual average of seven people per lodge, that would make about 115 lodges (tepees when unoccupied), equating to 230 warriors at the norm of two per lodge. They were varyingly claimed to live among other herds of buffalo, or to live separate from other bands by the Cheyenne River and the Missouri ...
A Lakota camp joined the war expedition. [4]: p. 553 They camped at Powder River, either in present-day Montana or Wyoming. Crows from a camp at the Tongue River chanced upon them just before dark. The Cheyenne and the Lakota realized they were discovered, and the warriors quickly prepared to make an attack on their foes.
A short film, Lakota in America, was produced by Square. The film features Genevieve Iron Lightning, a young Lakota dancer on the Cheyenne River Reservation, one of the poorest communities in the United States. Unemployment, addiction, alcoholism, and suicide are all challenges for Lakota on the reservation.
Rhonda Holy Bear was born on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in South Dakota. She is a Hunkpapa Lakota [3] and Dakota citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. [2] She began making dolls at age four, encouraged by her grandmother, Angeline Holy Bear (Lakota/Dakota).
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Crow Tribe. Crow Creek Sioux Tribe. Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe. Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. Northern Arapaho Tribe. Northern Cheyenne Tribe. Oglala Sioux Tribe. Omaha Tribe.
Yellow Hawk, Cheyenne River Sioux Chief. Chief Yellow Hawk (also known as Ci-tan-gi) was a leader of the Sans Arc Lakota a sub-group of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe. In 1867 Yellow Hawk was a member of the delegation of Native American representatives who signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty and in 1868, the Treaty of Fort Laramie, protecting tribal lands from further seizure and encroachment by ...