Biografie van Cheyenne
<b>Cheyenne</b> are a Native American nation of the Great Plains. The Cheyenne Nation is composed of two united tribes, the <b>S'taa'e</b> (more commonly as <b>Sutai</b>) and the <b>Ts-tshsthese</b> (singular: <b>Tshstno</b>; more commonly as the <b>Tsitsistas</b>), which translates to "those like us". The name Cheyenne derives from Dakota Sioux ''?ahyena'', meaning "little ''?ahya''". Though the identity of the ''?ahya'' is not known, many Great Plains tribes assume it means Cree or some other people that spoke an Algonquian language related to the Cree and the Cheyenne. However, the common folk etymology for "Cheyenne" is "bit like the [people of an] alien speech" (literally, "little red-talker").<br />
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During the pre-reservation era, they were allied with the Arapaho and Lakota (Sioux). They are one of the best known of the Plains tribes. The Cheyenne Nation comprised ten bands, spread all over the Great Plains, from southern Colorado to the Black Hills in South Dakota. In the mid-nineteenth century, the bands began to split, with some bands choosing to remain near the Black Hills, while others chose to remain near the Platte Rivers of central Colorado.<br />
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Currently the Northern Cheyenne, known in Cheyenne either as <b>Notameohmshese</b> meaning "Northern Eaters" or simply as <b>Ohmshese</b> meaning "Eaters", live in southeast Montana on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. The Southern Cheyenne, known in Cheyenne as <b>Hevhetane</b> meaning "Roped People," along with the Southern Arapaho, live in central Oklahoma. Their combined population is approximately 20,000.<br />
thumb|300px|Cheyenne lodges with American Bison|buffalo meat drying, 1870<br />
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