Northern Cheyenne Tribe

Ancestral Lands: Great Lakes region, and thence to Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Colorado.

History
The Northern Cheyenne and the Southern Cheyenne, share their early history as the Cheyenne Tribe. The Cheyenne Tribe divided into the Northern and Southern Cheyenne in 1825

Among the many tribes involved in the Battle of the Little Big Horn the Northern Cheyenne helped  defeat General Custer's army.

The Tongue River Reservation, became home to the Northern Cheyenne in 1884.

Brief Timeline

 * 1700: living in Minnesota River valley
 * 1700's: during 1700's migrated to the Sheyenne River valley in North Dakota
 * 1800's: pressures forced them to the Missouri River, North and South Dakota.
 * 1820's: formed an aliance with the Oglala Sioux and fought the Crow Indians
 * 1825: "Friendhip Treaty of 1825" fifteen Cheyenne leaders received a medal whch bore the design of clasped hands.
 * 1825: tribe division of the Cheyenne into northern and southern bands.
 * 1830: Bent's Fort established
 * 1850: had migrated to North Platte River in eastern Wyoming.
 * 1851: Treaty at Fort Laramie gave the Cheyenne and other tribes land between the Platte and Arkansas Rivers, in what became Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, and western Kansas.
 * 1857-1879: the Cheyenne fought an ongoing war with the U.S. Army
 * 1859:
 * 1864: Sand Creek Massacre 400-500 Cheyenne and Arapaho killed by U.S. Soldiers
 * 1876: the Northern Cheyenne
 * 1877: Cheyenne surrendered and were removed to the Southern Cheyenne Reservation in Indian Territory
 * 1878: In the fall of 1878, part of the Northern Cheyenne were allowed to go back north.
 * 1880-1891: the tribe gathered to southeastern Montana
 * 1884: Tongue River Reservation was established for the Northern Cheyenne on 16 November by executive order of President Chester A. Arthur.
 * 1884: Northern Cheyenne Reservation is established
 * 1884: St. Labre Catholic Indian Boarding School was established at site of Ashland, Montana
 * 1900: The Tongue River Reservation was enlarged by executive order on 19 March 1900 to include from the west bank of the Tongue River to the eastern boundary of the Crow Reservation
 * 1935: Constitution and bylaws of the Northern Cheyenne was approved on 23 November 1935, under the Indian Reorganization Act.

Reservations
This tribe is primarily associated with the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southern Montana.

Tribal Headquarters
Northern Cheyenne Tribe P.O. Box 128 Lame Deer, MT 59043 Phone: 406.477.6284 Fax: 406.477.6210

Records
Agencies

Northern Cheyenne Agency

Tongue River Agency

Important Web Sites

 * Constitutions and By-Laws of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Tongue River Reservation, Approved November 23, 1935
 * Northern Cheyenne Tribe Official Website
 * Cheyenne Tribe Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia article on Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation