Northern Cheyenne Tribe: Difference between revisions

'''1851:''' Treaty at Fort Laramie which supposedly gave Cheyenne and other tribes land between the Platte and Arkansas Rivers, in what became Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, and western Kansas.  

 

'''1859:''' Colorado gold rush displaced the Indians from their promised lands  

 

'''1876:''' Battle of the Little Big Horn took place on 25 June 1876  

 

'''1877:''' Cheyenne surrendered and were removed to the Southern Cheyenne Reservation in Indian Territory  

 

'''1878:''' In the fall of 1878, part of the Northern Cheyenne were allowed to go back north.  

 

'''1884:''' Tongue River Reservation was established for the Northern Cheyenne on 16 November by executive order of President Chester A. Arthur.  

 

'''1884:''' [[St._Labre_Indian_School_(Montana)|St. Labre Catholic Indian Boarding School]] was established at site of Ashland, Montana  

 

'''1900:''' The Tongue River Reservation was enlarged by executive order on 19 March 1900 to include from the west bank of the Tongue River to the eastern boundary of the Crow Reservation  

 

'''1935:''' Constitution and bylaws of the Northern Cheyenne was approved on 23 November 1935, under the Indian Reorganization Act.