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plural Cheyenne or Cheyennes
: a member of a nation of Algonquian-speaking Indigenous peoples of the western Great Plains of the U.S.
Note: The Cheyenne divided into northern and southern branches in the 1830s, with the Southern Cheyenne uniting with the Southern Arapaho tribe to form the federally recognized Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal Nations.
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: the Algonquian language of the Cheyenne people
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Cheyenne
noun
Chey·enne
shī-ˈan 
-ˈen
plural Cheyenne or Cheyennes
: a member of an Indigenous people of the western Great Plains of the U.S.
also
: their language
Geographical Definition
Cheyenne
geographical name
Chey·enne
shī-ˈan
-ˈen
1
river 527 miles (850 kilometers) long in South Dakota flowing northeast into the Missouri River
2
city in southeastern Wyoming, the state capital population 59,466
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