How did the cheyenne Indians get their tribe name?

Answer 1

The word "Cheyenne" is Siouan in origin, and traditional Cheyennes prefer the term "Tsistsistas." As a tribal nation, the Cheyennes were formed from several allied bands that amalgamated around the Black Hills in the early eighteenth century to become one of the most visible Plains Indian tribes in American history.

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Answer 2

In the eastern Algonquian languages the term for south is sowanayeu, schawaneu or similar words. Their more northerly neighbours called them Shawnee to indicate "people to the south [of us]".

The Shawnee may have originally been one people with the Delawares (Lenape); their real name may have been Ontouagannha.

Answer 3

In the eastern Algonquian languages the term for south is sowanayeu, schawaneu or similar words. Their more northerly neighbours called them Shawnee to indicate "people to the south [of us]".

The Shawnee may have originally been one people with the Delawares (Lenape); their real name may have been Ontouagannha.

Answer 4

"Cheyenne" is not the real name of the tribe - they call themselves Tse-tsehese-staestse (pronounced something like tsis-tsis-tsas), which like most native tribal names means "the human beings". Each tribe considered themselves to be "real people", everyone else was subordinate and generally subhuman.

The name Cheyenne probably comes from the name given to them by their Sioux (Lakota) neighbours. The Lakota word shahiameans "to speak a different language", so Shahiyena means "people who speak a different language".

Almost all modern Native American tribal names are incorrect in the same way - they are the names applied to them by other tribes, not the tribe's own name for themselves.