Cheyenne
Americannoun
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a member of a North American Indian people of the western plains, formerly in central Minnesota and North and South Dakota, and now divided between Montana and Oklahoma.
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an Algonquian language, the language of the Cheyenne Indians.
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a city in and the capital of Wyoming, in the S part.
noun
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a member of a Native American people of the western Plains, now living chiefly in Montana and Oklahoma
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the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
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Etymology
Origin of Cheyenne
via Canadian French from Dakota Shaiyena, from shaia to speak incoherently, from sha red + ya to speak
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Cheyenne shows what happens when the AI surge lands in a place with a critical labor and housing shortage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Cheyenne, a city of 66,000 nicknamed “The Magic City of the Plains,” was built on rail, ranching, oil and gas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Cheyenne Hunt, a Laguna Hills attorney and executive director of a progressive advocacy group, and social media influencer Arielle Fodor, known online as Mrs. Frazzled, are among those publicizing the allegations online.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
Cheyenne Hangaman, the boys' mother, said she tried to rescue them by lifting them out of the water and placing them on the ice, but it kept breaking.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
“Those represent the three tribes who fought here on our side: Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho,” he explained.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
Like the other traditionals among the Cheyennes and Lakotas, he had desired simply to follow the old way of life—hunting buffalo, raiding tribal enemies and camping where he wished.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
“I see this newspaper clipping and it’s Southern Cheyennes in St. Augustine, Fla., in 1875. I know enough about my tribe’s history to know that we were never in Florida.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
For some Cheyennes, every treaty that peace chiefs signed and that the U.S. government broke made violence look more sensible than acquiescence.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
He counts among his friends a tribal elder of the Northern Cheyennes, the artist behind the hit single “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” and the president of the United States of America.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2016
Our Indians knew nothing of it, and yet there are all through it numerous trails, old lodge poles, bleached bones of game, and old camps of Cheyennes and Arapahoes.
From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Murphy, Robert F.
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