Example Sentences

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The meaning was clear: The Lakotas and the Cheyennes would soon win a spectacular victory.

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

From the Rocky Mountains, Cheyennes and Arapahos also acquired horses from New Mexico and used them to move southward and join the hunting, raiding, and trading culture of the Plains.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

The Cheyennes were camped close by, near the hill southeast of the Comanches, and they, too, had heard that the Comanches had a Pawnee in the camp.

From Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people by Grinnell, George Bird