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Cheyenne (Indians) - Language, Early history and culture, 19th century and Indian Wars, Northern Cheyenne exodus, Northern Cheyenne return

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North American Plains Indians, speaking an Algonquian language, divided since the 1830s into N and S groups. Buffalo hunters on horseback, they were pushed W by various groups (such as the Ojibwa and Sioux), and their population was reduced by fighting and disease. They were involved in conflict with European prospectors and settlers (1857–9), and in the 1870s participated in the uprisings of other Plains tribes against the whites. They live mainly in Montana and Oklahoma, numbering c.18 200 (2000 census).

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