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 Cheyenne language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cheyenne language (Tsėhesenėstsestotse or, in easier spelling, Tsisinstsistots) is a Native American language spoken in present-day Montana and Oklahoma, USA.
Cheyenne is one of the Algonquian languages, which is a subphylum of the Algic languages.
Cheyenne is spoken on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana and in Oklahoma.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cheyenne_language   (716 words)

  
 Cheyenne Indians - Crystalinks
While exact numbers are difficult to determine, it is clear that the Northern Cheyenne and Lakota outnumbered the U.S. force by approximately 3:1, a ratio which was extended to 5:1 during the piecemeal parts of the battle.
After their fight with Custer was finished, the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne came back to attack the remaining US forces under Benteen and Reno, who had finally ventured toward the audible firing of the Custer fight.
The Cheyenne were among the Plains tribes who performed the sun dance in its most elaborate form.
www.crystalinks.com /cheyenne.html   (3444 words)

  
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Cheyenne Language and the Cheyenne Indian Tribe (Tsitsistas, Tsetsehestahese) __ "Cheyenne is an Algonquian language spoken by about 1500 people in Montana and central Oklahoma.
Some Cheyenne youths, who by personality and predisposition felt no inclination toward the usual roles of men, such as the arts of war and men's war-related status competitiveness, might enter the pathic gender by adopting roles usually played by women.
In fact, the Cheyenne third gender had a certain sacredness, so a pathic wife brought a certain prestige to her husband: Though she did not participate in war, she might accompany the warriors on their way to battle as their campfollower, an act that increased the men's luck in battle.
espanol.lycos.com /info/cheyenne-indians.html   (530 words)

  
 Cheyenne Language and the Cheyenne Indian Tribe (Cheyanne, Tsitsistas, Tsetsehestehese)
Language: Cheyenne is an Algonquian Indian language spoken by about 1500 Native Americans in Montana and central Oklahoma.
Some children are still learning Cheyenne as a native language, but due to the small number of speakers there is fear that the language may die out if effort is not put into revitalizing it.
The Cheyenne were Great Plains people, who today have two tribes: the Northern Cheyenne in Montana, numbering 6500, and the Southern Cheyenne, who are united with their longtime allies the Arapaho into a single Nation in Oklahoma with a combined 11,000 members.
www.native-languages.org /cheyenne.htm   (582 words)

  
 Cheyenne Language Web Site
Cheyenne is spoken in southeastern Montana on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, and in central Oklahoma.
The U.S. government was unable to eradicate the Cheyenne language through its campaigns of military genocide against Cheyennes and its policies of cultural and language assimilation at boarding schools.
Wise Cheyennes today resist the threatened death of their language, and are trying to find some cures at this stage of culture and language change.
www.geocities.com /cheyenne_language   (1130 words)

  
 Native Americans - Cheyenne
The Cheyenne abandoned their settlements in Minnesota in the 17th cent., leaving the region to the hostile Sioux and Ojibwa.
The Cheyenne were generally friendly toward white settlers, until the discovery of gold in Colorado (1858) brought a swarm of gold seekers into their lands.
By a treaty signed in 1861 the Cheyenne agreed to live on a reservation in SE Coorado, but the U.S. government did not fulfill its obligations, and the Native Americans were reduced to near starvation.
www.nativeamericans.com /Cheyenne.htm   (1507 words)

  
 Cheyenne language, alphabet and pronunciation
There are about 11,000 Cheyenne people, 3,000 of whom speak the Cheyenne language, a member of the Algonquian family.
The Cheyenne population is divided between the Northern Cheyenne, who live on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeastern Montana and number about 8,000, and the Southern Cheyenne, who live in western Oklahoma and number about 3,000.
The Cheyenne name for their language is Tsêhést and the Cheyenne people call themselves Tsitsistas.
www.omniglot.com /writing/cheyenne.htm   (154 words)

  
 Cheyenne Lands
Military Societies of the Cheyenne not only had ceremonial functions such as their participation in the Sun Dance, but also were largely responsible for protecting the tribes and maintaining tribal discipline.
Cheyenne life on the plains early in the 19th century was well adapted to tribal existence.
Rations, schools, Christianity, and substitutes, but the Southern Cheyenne were powerless to contest the superior force of the white man. Stripped of their reservation several decades later by land hungary American farmers and speculaters, the Cheyenne declined as disease, despair and lethargy took their toll.
rebelcherokee.labdiva.com /cheyenne.html   (1700 words)

  
 Cheyenne Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cheyenne is also spoken in central Oklahoma where the average age of the youngest speakers is approximately 65.
Cheyenne has a number of words which are not to be spoken by certain groups of people or when certain relatives are near, or in groups of mixed men and women.
Cheyenne nouns and verbs often indicate whether the person or persons involved with those words are "I," (first person) "you," (second person) or "he, she, or it" (third person), and also whether there is one person (singular) or more than one person (plural).
www11.asphost4free.com /cheyennedictionary/index-en.htm   (3813 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, Ute, and Lakota were among the languages spoken in the Bent trading empire.
The lyrics were put in Cheyenne in 1909 by Rev. Rodolphe Petter, a Mennonite missionary to the Cheyennes, who came to America from Switzerland.
The Cheyenne is sung to the familiar tune from Gruber.
www.lycos.com /info/cheyenne--cheyenne-language.html   (282 words)

  
 cheyenne, lena, svanja
Not all Cheyenne educators, leaders or parents believe this false (6) doctrine (7), which is unsupported by scientific studies of bilingualism (8), but enough do so that Cheyenne language attrition (9) is occurring (10) today at an alarming rate.
Wise Cheyennes today resist the threatened (13) death of their language, and are trying to find some cures (14) at this stage of culture and language change.
The Cheyenne language is spoken in southeastern Montana, on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation and in Central Oklahoma.
members.aol.com /nacanapah/chey.htm   (1978 words)

  
 Whole Earth: Just Speak Your Language
Just because our children are born to Cheyenne parents on Cheyenne land and engage in Cheyenne traditional practices does not mean they are automatically predisposed to learning the Cheyenne language.
They must learn to speak the Cheyenne language in just the same way they would have to go about acquiring Greek or German or Swahili, especially since for almost all of them English is now their first language.
Everybody who works with languages should learn about second-language acquisition and the theories buttressing it, and be able to apply those theories in whatever subject area they are teaching.
www.wholeearthmag.com /ArticleBin/326.html   (1672 words)

  
 cheyenne indian social studies
The Southern Cheyenne in Oklahoma and the Northern Cheyenne in Montana.
Cheyenne Language and the Cheyenne Indian Tribe (Tsitsistas, Tsetsehestahese)
Cheyenne speakers and non-Cheyenne researchers sometimes refer to two dialects of Cheyenne, Northern Cheyenne (spoken in Montana) and Southern Cheyenne (spoken in Oklahoma).
www.archaeolink.com /cheyenne_indians.htm   (1405 words)

  
 cheyenne01   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Cheyenne or Tsitsistas (own ethnic name): is an Algonquian group, traditional of the Prairie.
Cheyenne edo Tsitsistas herria: -hori da beren jatorrizko izen etnikoa, lautadetako talde ezagun bat dira.
The Cheyenne language has been set out for easy pronunciation; the English words are presented first, then the Cheyenne word, thus allowing anyone wishing to learn the language the chance to do so.
icemaid.virtualave.net /cheyenne2.html   (789 words)

  
 Cheyenne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Cheyenne Indians lived in the Great Plains area, east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the Mississippi River.
The Cheyenne dialect is part of the Algonquin language family.
The Cheyenne are trying desperately to keep their language alive despite the government’s recent attempts to make their language extinct.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/northamerica/cheyenne.html   (450 words)

  
 Cheyenne Language
The writing system shown here has been accepted as official by the Northern Cheyenne nation, I am unsure as to this orthography’s status in the South.
According to Risingsun and Leman, the orthography was developed by Rodolphe Petter in the 1890’s, to which a few additions have been made over the years.
On the charts below, there is lots of phonetic terminology that may not be familiar to everyone.
www.languagegeek.com /algon/cheyenne/cheyenne.html   (230 words)

  
 Native American Culture - Languages
This language center was established in 1972 by state legislation as a center for documentation and cultivation of the state's 20 Native languages.
Cheyenne is spoken in southeastern Montana on the Northern Cheyenne reservation and in central Oklahoma.
The Comanche Language and Cultural Preservation Committee is succeeding at preserving the "NUMU TEKWAPUHA" and restoring it as a living language.
www.ewebtribe.com /NACulture/lang.htm   (1374 words)

  
 American Indian Language Resources
Alaska Native Language Center Established in 1972 by state legislation as a center for documentation and cultivation of the state's 20 Native languages.
Institute for the Preservation of the Original Languages of the Americas The Institute for the Preservation of the Original Languages of the Americas collaborates with indigenous communities to revitalize and perpetuate the languages and culture of the original inhabitants of the Americas.
Indigenous Language Institute The ILI collaborates with indigenous communities to reviatlize and perpetuate the languages and culture of the original inhabitants of the Americas
www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp /~krkvls/lang.html   (1693 words)

  
 Native Americans: Cheyenne Indian Tribe
As a complement to our Cheyenne language information, we would like to share our collection of indexed links about the Cheyenne people and various aspects of their society.
Cheyenne history is interesting and important, but the Cheyenne are still here today, too, and we try to feature modern writers as well as traditional folklore, contemporary artwork as well as archaeology exhibits, and the issues and struggles of today as well as the tragedies of yesterday.
Genealogical resource for Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian descendents, with documents such as marriage licenses.
www.native-languages.org /cheyenne_culture.htm   (369 words)

  
 Native Languages: Links and resources for study
Prairie Band Potawotomie Language Project -- With support of a grant from Iowa Humanities Commission, University and Reservation-based group is attempting to construct a lexicon, a grammar, and other tools to keep this Algonquian language alive.
SIL bibliography of Native Language publications -- non-tchnical and technical are on same page, separated by a top of the pag jump anchor.
Language is our prime (though not only) medium of thought -- the way the world is conceptualized.
www.kstrom.net /isk/stories/language.html   (1547 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:chy
Northern Cheyenne Reservation, southeastern Montana; associated with Arapaho in western Oklahoma.
Northern Cheyenne in Montana have a summer camp for children, where 5 fluent speakers teach the language (1998).
Leman, Wayne E. A reference grammar of the Cheyenne language.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=chy   (255 words)

  
 Cheyenne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Other Cheyenne language materials are also available from the same address (an order form is available on request).
This short language course is dedicated to the memory of Cheyenne language teacher Josephine Stands In Timber Glenmore [see the obituary in the Jan. 1991 issue of the SSILA Newsletter], with whom linguist Leman worked closely for 10 years.
A partial glossary of words and morphemes from the texts and a sketch of noun and verb morphology are appended.
linguistics.buffalo.edu /ssila/learning/cheyenne.htm   (221 words)

  
 Chief Dull Knife College books - Lulu.com
This new dictionary carefully records and illustrates more than 18,000 words of the Cheyenne language, as it is spoken in Oklahoma and Montana.
This Cheyenne Student Dictionary is the same as the Cheyenne Dictionary, except that taboo words have been removed, as requested by Cheyenne elders.
This collection has pictures of Cheyennes, mostly elders, many of whom are no longer with us, along with their Indian names.
www.lulu.com /cdkc   (388 words)

  
 Cheyenne Language Programs @ Buffalo Trails - Cheyenne Language Menu
Cheyenne language programs to all people who were denied their language and for all others who want to learn
(Cheyenne) Ted Risingsun and Wayne Leman - A self-teaching introductory course for the Cheyenne language.
Intended to aid in the preservation of the Cheyenne language, the course includes the subjects of greetings, eating, drinking, common verbs, relatives, numbers, sample conversations, and more.
www.native-americans.org /languages/language-cheyenne.htm   (611 words)

  
 Cheyenne language and culture
FROM WIKIPEDIA The Cheyenne language is a Native American language spoken in present-day Montana and Oklahoma, USA.
Cheyenne, Wyoming Cheyenne, the capitol of Wyoming, is a steadily growing city located in the southeast corner of the state.
Cheyenne started as a railroad boom town in 1867, and continues the Western tradition with the annual Cheyenne Frontier...
www.lonweb.org /link-cheyenne.htm   (355 words)

  
 Cheyenne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cheyenne, along with the Lakota and a small band of Arapaho, annihilated George Armstrong Custer and much of his 7th Cavalry contingent of Army soldiers.
Fort Keogh became the staging and gathering point for the Northern Cheyenne.
First they lived in the Eastern Woodlands and were a sedentary and agricultural people, planting corn, and beans.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cheyenne   (1801 words)

  
 Cheyenne Cultural Center
The Cheyenne Cultural Center, conceived as a vision by Lawrence Hart, became a reality in 1977.
Hart, executive director of the center, and his family founded the center in hopes to cultivate the preservation of the Cheyenne people's way of life.
It has a Cheyenne Language Institute, holding the classic Cheyenne-English Dictionary by Rudolphe Petter, including the most comprehensive collection of orthographies and language materials in Oklahoma with a lab of computers loaded with over 1500 words, available for language acquisition by students.
www.clintonokla.org /entertainment/cheyennecenter.htm   (137 words)

  
 Cheyenne Translation Project's Storefront - Lulu.com
We distribute Cheyenne language materials for Cheyenne speakers and others.
New Cheyenne dictionaries may be ordered from Chief Dull Knife College.
Cheyenne Bible: Translation of the Bible into the Cheyenne language, including several complete books of the Bible and many parts of other books of the Bible.
www.lulu.com /ccep   (175 words)

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