An Algonquian-speaking Plains Indian tribe located in Wyoming, Nebraska, and the western Dakotas, and later in Montana and Oklahoma. Together with the Lakota Sioux, the two branches of the Cheyenne, the Northern and the Southern, resisted westward expansion of white settlers on the Great Plains. In 1878, the Northern Cheyenne, led by Dull Knife and Little Wolf, fled their reservation in Oklahoma and trekked north to their homeland in Montana, pursued by U.S. Army troops. After many hardships, they were permitted to remain there on a reservation on the Tongue River.
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