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The Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation (Cheyenne: Tsėhéstáno [1]) is the federally recognized Northern Cheyenne tribe and a Plains tribe. The Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation is reservation located in southeastern Montana, that is approximately 690 square miles (1,800 km 2) large. It is home to ...
Chief Dull Knife College (CDKC) was chartered in 1975 by the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council. The college is accredited by and maintains professional memberships in the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (AACJC), and in the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.
The Northern Cheyenne Tribe questions the school's use of millions of dollars while in service to a limited number of actual tribe members. The Tribal Council settled litigation with St. Labre School for annual payments of $65,000 from the school, which members of the tribe have claimed the Tribal Council misappropriated. [citation needed ...
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 ...
Tribal councils were components of many tribal governments predating colonization by the United States. The Cheyenne maintain a Council of Forty-four created by the prophet Sweet Medicine which continues today works in tandem with the elected, secular governments of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes and Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation.
The Northern Cheyenne tribe relies on two federally funded Bureau of Indian Affairs tribal police officers per shift to patrol more than 440,000 acres of land home to roughly 6,000 residents ...
Matika Wilbur photographed members of every federally recognized Native American tribe. She named the series Project 562 for the number of recognized tribes at the time.
Northern Cheyenne Tribal School (NCTS) is a tribally controlled K-12 school in Busby, Montana. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). [1] It is on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation and it is one of two tribally controlled schools in the state with grade levels K-12. [2]