Cheyenne
noun/ʃaɪˈæn/, /ʃaɪˈen/
/ʃaɪˈæn/, /ʃaɪˈen/
- (plural Cheyenne, Cheyennes)a member of a native North American people, many of whom now live in the US states of Oklahoma and MontanaCultureThe Cheyenne language is part of the Algonquian family of languages. The Cheyenne helped the Sioux to defeat General George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn. They were then forced to live on reservations (= areas of land kept for native North American people to live on) in Oklahoma and Montana.
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- the capital of the US state of Wyoming
Word OriginCanadian French, from Dakota (the language of the Sioux people) šahíyena, from šaia ‘speak incoherently’, from ša ‘red’ + ya ‘speak’.
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