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You can read how the Cheyennes were saved from the Hoh by a dog, in a book by George Bird Grinnell, called the _Fighting Cheyennes_.
The Trail Book Mary Hunter Austin 1901
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But the greatest sickness of the Cheyennes was a longing for their old land.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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And by the early 1870s Sioux and Northern Cheyennes living between the Yellowstone and the Black Hills purposefully shifted from an offensive to a defensive strategy.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Still, as one warrior noted, “the Cheyennes were rendered very poor,” and amid great misery they struggled down the Powder to find succor with Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.20
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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And by the early 1870s Sioux and Northern Cheyennes living between the Yellowstone and the Black Hills purposefully shifted from an offensive to a defensive strategy.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Still, as one warrior noted, “the Cheyennes were rendered very poor,” and amid great misery they struggled down the Powder to find succor with Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.20
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Among the tribes claiming territory abutting the COC&PP route were the Cheyennes, Pawnees, Poncas, Arapahos, Utes, Paiutes, and Gosiutes.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Forewarned but not forearmed, the secretary was attacked again two weeks later, apparently by a different group of Cheyennes.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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To his disappointment, the main tribes in the area—the Comanches, Kiowas, and Cheyennes—had lapsed into a temporary period of quiet, and Burton had to settle for turning his sharp brown eyes to an anthropological study of the Indians, whom he found quite similar to the desert Bedouins of North Africa.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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To his disappointment, the main tribes in the area—the Comanches, Kiowas, and Cheyennes—had lapsed into a temporary period of quiet, and Burton had to settle for turning his sharp brown eyes to an anthropological study of the Indians, whom he found quite similar to the desert Bedouins of North Africa.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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