INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 275 
this country one of the most delightful spots to the Indian. We will not at this time 
describe the country in detail, inasmuch as we shall dwell more at length upon it in our 
history of the Dakota bands which now roam over it. We now allude to it, from the fact 
that it seems to be the starting-point in our knowledge of the Shyennes. A little farther 
up the river, a small stream flows into the Missouri from the north, which is called the 
Little Shyenne. ‘These streams evidently derived their names, from the fact that they 
drain the country once occupied by this tribe of Indians. 
Those enterprising travellers, Lewis and Clarke, give us no extended account of the 
Shyennes, and simply allude to them in their Joumal.* On their map attached to their 
report, they locate them near the eastern base of the Black Hills, in the valley of the 
Great Shyenne River, and state the number at fifteen hundred souls. They also speak of 
_ the remains of their old villages along the Missouri (vol. i, p. 149), which seem to show 
the course of their migrations. Near the mouth of a little stream, named by them “ Cha- 
yenne” Creek, they observed “a circular work or fort, where the Sharsha or Chayennes 
formerly lived.” There are, also, on one of the banks cf the Red River of the North, the 
remains of an old village of the Shyennes, with an important stream bearing their name. 
All these forts show quite clearly that. the Shyennes either gradually and slowly migrated 
from the far north to their present location, in search of better hunting grounds, or were 
driven by the superior strength of their more numerous neighbors. We have the state- 
ments of persons now living in that country, that the Dakotas drove them from the Mis- 
sourl to their present position. 
Brackenridge in his Journal of a tour up the Missouri River, in 1811,} says of these 
Indians that they are a “ wandering nation on the heads of the Shyenne River; trade with 
the Arikaras; speak a different language from any nation I know; their complexion very 
fair. They trade also with the Spaniards, and have a great number of horses, &c.” 
During the time of Long’s expedition to the Rocky Mountains, in 1819 and 1820, a 
small portion of the Shyennes seem to have separated themselves from their nation on the 
Missouri, and associated themselves with the Arapohos, who wandered about the tributa- 
ries of the Platte. On page 367, vol. ii: ‘“‘ The Shyennes associated with those wander- 
ing tribes (Arapohos, &c.), are a small band of seceders from the nation of the same name, 
residing upon the Shyenne River. ‘They are said to be daring and ferocious.” $ 
* Travels up the Missouri, during the Years 1804, ’5, and ’6, by Captains Lewis and Clarke. London edition, 
in three volumes. 
{ Views of Louisiana, together with a Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811. _ By OH. M. 
Brackenridge, Esq. Pittsburg, 1814. 
{ Account of an Expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the Years 1819 and 1820, 
by order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Major Stephen H. Long, com- 
piled by Edwin James, Botanist and Geologist to the Expedition. 2 vols., with an Atlas. Philadelphia, 1823. 
