Cheyenne Indians, a warlike branch of the Algonquin stock, originally on the Red River of the North, later on the Cheyenne River in Wyoming, and as far south as the Arkansas. From 1861 to 1867 the government had frequent wars and other troubles with them. They are now partially settled in Indian Territory.
Cheyenne Indians
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 171
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