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Cheyenne River

American  

noun

  1. a river flowing NE from E Wyoming to the Missouri River in South Dakota. About 500 miles (800 km) long.


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“My boy, we have some work to do,” the Cheyenne River Sioux tribal leader said at the Beverly Wilshire event.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2024

The duo joined the Cheyenne River Sioux, Oglala Sioux, Rosebud Sioux and Standing Rock Sioux tribes in making the state's chief executive an outlaw on their lands.

From BBC • May 13, 2024

In a darkened lab at the museum, Taylor and Lakota grad student Chance Ward, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, deploy beetles to scour the flesh from modern horse cadavers.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2023

On the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation, elder Raymond Clown told me that his family came out of their cabin one morning to discover Norwegian-speaking homesteaders unloading a wagon in their front yard.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2022

“Rapid Creek starts in the hills, flows east, and goes through Rapid City. Then it joins the Cheyenne River farther to the east.”

From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III