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(s̸hī an′, -en′)

noun

pl. Cheyennes or Cheyenne a member of a North American Indian people that migrated from Minnesota to the headwaters of the Platte River, and into S Colorado and SW Kansas, and now lives in Oklahoma
the Algonquian language of this people

Origin: Fr < Dakota šahíyena: meaning unknown

capital of Wyo., in the SE part: pop. 53,000
river in E Wyo. and W S.Dak., flowing northeast into the Missouri: 527 mi (848 km)

Origin: after Cheyenne

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noun pl. Cheyenne Cheyenne or Chey·ennes

a. A Native American people, divided after 1832 into the Northern and Southern Cheyenne, inhabiting respectively southeast Montana and southern Colorado, with present-day populations in Montana and Oklahoma. The Cheyenne became nomadic buffalo hunters after migrating to the Great Plains in the 18th century and figured prominently in the resistance by Plains Indians to white encroachment.
b. A member of this people.
The Algonquian language of the Cheyenne.

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Origin: Canadian French

Origin: , from Dakota šahíyela

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Chey·enneˈ adjective

The capital of Wyoming, in the southeast part of the state near the Nebraska and Colorado borders. It was founded in 1867 as a division point for the Union Pacific Railroad. Population: 55,300.

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