194 DAKOTA GRAMMAR, TEXTS, AND ETHNOGRAPHY. 
ago, or thereabouts, the Shayenne village was near the Yellow Medicine 
River in Minnesota, where are yet visible old earthworks. | From thence, 
according to Dakota tradition, they retired before the advancing Dakota, 
and made their village between Big Stone Lake and Lake Traverse. Their 
next remove appears to have been to the south bend of the Cheyenne, a 
branch of the Red River of the North. The fortification there is still very 
plain. While there: they seem to have had both the Ojibwa and Dakota 
for their enemies. Bloody battles were fought and finally the Shayenne 
retired to the Missouri. This is supposed to have been about one hundred 
years ago or more, After that time the Dakota became friendly to them. 
The Shayenne stopped on the east side of the Missouri and left their name 
to the Little Cheyenne. Soon after they crossed over and took possession 
of the country of the Big Cheyenne. There they were, hunting out to the 
Black Hills, in 1803, when Lewis and Clarke ascended the Missouri. — - 
