hooket] DIVISIONS OF THE CHEYENNE 1025 



Kansas and Oklahoma. They and the Arapaho made peace with the 

 Kiowa and Comauche in 1840, and raided in connection with these 

 tribes into Texas and Mexico until assigned in 1869 to a reserva- 

 tion in what is now western Oklahoma. In 1874 they, as well as the 

 Kiowa, Comanche, and Kiowa Apache, again went on the warpath in 

 consequence of the depredations of the buffalo hunters, but the out- 

 break was speedily suppressed. In 1890 they sold their reservation 

 and took allotments in severalty. The northern Cheyenne joined the 

 Sioux in the "Custer war" of 1870-77. At the surrender of the hos- 

 tiles they were removed to Oklahoma and placed with the southern 

 Cheyenne, but were much dissatisfied with their location, the dis- 

 satisfaction culminating in the attempt of a large party, under Dull 

 Knife, to escape to the north, in September, 1878. They were pursued, 

 and a part of them captured and confined at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, 

 whence they made a desperate attempt to escape on the night of Jan- 

 uary 9, 1879, resulting in the killing of nearly all of the prisoners. 

 They were finally assigned a reservation in Montana, where they now 

 are. with the exception of a few among the Sioux. According to the 

 official report for 1892, the southern Cheyenne in Oklahoma numbered 

 2,119, the northern Cheyenne in Montana, 1,200, and those with the 

 Sioux at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, 120, a total of 3,439. 



The Cheyenne have eleven tribal divisions. They have at least two 

 dialects, but probably more. The tribal divisions in their order in the 

 camping circle are — 



1. Em'sts-unVpaMs ('• smoky lodges" — Grinnell, fide Clark). 



2. Suta'ya or SU'tasi'na. This is one of the most important divisions 

 and formerly constituted a distinct tribe, but was afterward incorpo- 

 rated with the Cheyenne. According to concurrent Cheyenne and 

 Blackfoot tradition, as given by Grinnell, they seem originally to have 

 been a part of the Blackfeet, who became separated from the main 

 body of their tribe by the sudden breaking up of the ice while crossing 

 a large river. They drifted to the southward and finally met and 

 joined the Cheyenne in the Black hills. Their name, spelled Suti by 

 Grinnell, is said to mean " strange talkers." They live now on the 

 upper "Washita in Oklahoma and speak a dialect differing considerably 

 from that of the rest of the tribe. 



3. I'sium-ita'nww\ ("ridge-people;" singular, I'siumi-tan — Grinnell, 

 fide Clark). 



4. Hewd-tWniuw, " hairy men." The name is also sometimes used 

 collectively to designate all of the southern Cheyenne as distinguished 

 from the northern Cheyenne, called collectively Hmi'sts. The southern 

 Cheyenne are also designated collectively as So'wdnid, ''southerners." 



5. 6'ivimd'na, "scabby." This name is said to have been given them 

 originally on account of an epidemic which once broke out among their 

 horses and rendered them mangy. 



6. Wl'tapi'tt ("haters" — Grinnell,./!^ Clark). 



