Despite being an oral culture, the Cheyenne developed a complex centralized authority and ritual ceremonialism that united the tribe.

Following the Battle of Washita River in November 1868, Custer was alleged ( by Captain Frederick Benteen, chief of scouts Ben Clark, and Cheyenne oral tradition ) to have unofficially " married " Mo-nah-se-tah, daughter of the Cheyenne chief Little Rock in the winter or early spring of 1868 – 1869.

Cheyenne oral history tells that she also bore a second child, fathered by Custer in late 1869.

Storytellers said that according to their oral tradition, Buffalo Calf Road Woman, a Northern Cheyenne heroine of the Battle of the Rosebud, struck the final blow against Custer, which knocked him off his horse before he died.

During the 1920s, two elderly Cheyenne women spoke briefly with oral historians about their having recognized Custer's body on the battlefield, and had stopped a Sioux warrior from desecrating the body.

Cheyenne oral tradition tells that she gave birth to another child later that same year, fathered by George, but the childs paternity was never determined.

In a public recounting of Cheyenne oral history of the battle, tribal storytellers said that Buffalo Calf Road Woman had struck the blow that knocked Custer off his horse before he died in the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

A Cheyenne woman has higher status if she is part of an extended family with distinguished ancestors and gets on well with her female relatives ; does not have members in her extended family who are alcoholics or otherwise in disrepute ; is hardworking, chaste and modest ; is skilled in traditional crafts ; knowledgeable about Cheyenne culture and history and speaks Cheyenne fluently.

The movie provided the first motion picture account of the Sand Creek massacre, one of the most infamous incidents in the history of the American frontier, in which Colorado Territory militia under Colonel John M. Chivington massacred a defenseless village of Cheyenne and Arapaho on the Colorado Eastern Plains.

Oral history accounts from relatives on the Cheyenne River Reservation place his birth in the spring of 1840.

Human artifacts have been found on or near Bear Butte that date back 10, 000 years, indicating a long and continuous interest in the mountain. The Cheyenne and Lakota people have maintained a spiritual interest in Bear Butte from their earliest recorded history.

* Cheyenne ( 1955 TV series ) ( 1955 ), the first hour-long Western in American television history

The Historical Site was authorized by Public Law 106-465 on November 7, 2000, in order to " recognize the national significance of the massacre in American history, and its ongoing significance to the Cheyenne and Arapaho people and the descendants of the massacre victims.

In the early twentieth century, he served as a major source or informant for James Mooney and George Bird Grinnell, anthropologists who went to the West to study the Cheyenne and learn about their history and culture.

Throughout the years, the Cheyenne Airport would not only impact the city's economy, but its cultural history, and the whole nation, as well.

Custer and his men were massacred by the combined Sioux and Cheyenne force in what has become known as one of the worst defeats in American military history.

Wooden Leg, a Northern Cheyenne, relates another legend told to him by an old man as they were traveling together past the Devils Tower around 1866-1868.

Soule saw that the Cheyenne were flying the U. S. flag as a sign of peace, and, when told to attack, ordered his men to hold their fire and stay put.

On the evening of his son's death, the elder Crazy Horse told Lieutenant H. R. Lemly that his son " would soon have been thirty-seven, having been born on the South Cheyenne river in the fall of 1840 ".

When Bent, who had lived among the Cheyenne for 40 years and had half-Cheyenne children, asked for peaceful resolution, Chivington told him it was not possible.

Riding back down from the bluffs, Gall told Sioux and Cheyenne forces returning from Reno's repulse of his suspicions.

* 1876 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1, 500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.

" The tragedy was compounded in 1995, when Cheyenne, suffering from lingering effects of a serious car accident and said to still be depressed over Drollet's death, committed suicide by hanging herself in Tahiti.

* United 93 ( 2006 ), portrayed by Cheyenne Jackson

* 1864 – American Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre – Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.

Warner Bros. Television provided the ABC with a weekly show, Warner Bros. Presents ; the show featured a rotating series of shows based on three of the studio's film successes, Kings Row, Casablanca and Cheyenne, followed by a promotion for one of Warner's big screen films.

This team also included Wolfsbane ( a devout Scots Presbyterian ), Danielle Moonstar ( a Cheyenne Native American ) and Cannonball, and was later joined by Magma ( a devout Greco-Roman classical religionist ).

* June 17 – American Indian Wars – Battle of the Rosebud: 1, 500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.

* June 25 – American Indian Wars – Battle of the Little Bighorn: 300 men of the U. S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped out by 5, 000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

* November 29 – American Indian Wars – Sand Creek Massacre: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapahoe noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado ( where they had been given permission to camp ).

Thereafter bands of Lakota Sioux led by Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and others, along with their Northern Cheyenne allies, hunted and raided throughout the length and breadth of eastern Montana and northeastern Wyoming, which had been for a time ancestral Crow territory.

In November 1864, a small village of Cheyenne and Arapaho became victims of the Sand Creek massacre, an attack by the Colorado militia, led by Colonel John Chivington.

According to an historical narrative on the event titled " Chief Left Hand ", by Margaret Coel, contributing factors that led to the massacre were: Governor Evans ' desire to hold title to the resource rich Denver-Boulder area ; government trust officials ' avoidance of Chief Left Hand ( a linguistically gifted Southern Arapaho chief ), when executing a legal treaty that transferred title of the area away from Indian Trust ; a local cavalry stretched thin by the demands of the Civil War ; the hijacking of their supplies by a few stray Indian warriors who had lost respect for their chiefs and followers of Chief Left Hand ( including a group of Cheyenne and Arapaho elders, a few well behaved warriors, and mostly women and children ), who had received a message to report to Fort Lyon with the promise of safety and food at the Fort, or risk being considered " hostile " and ordered killed by the cavalry.

Colorado Springs is mentioned as near the military target Cheyenne Mountain which took a direct hit during the " Wet Firecracker War " but suffered little damage until hit many times by rock missiles from Luna.

In 1765, a Saône exploring and raiding party led by Chief Standing Bear discovered the Black Hills ( the Paha Sapa ), then the territory of the Cheyenne.

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand and, by the Native Americans involved, as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, was an armed engagement between combined forces of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.

It was an overwhelming victory for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho, led by several major war leaders, including Crazy Horse and Gall, inspired by the visions of Sitting Bull ( Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake ).

Cheyenne maiden photographed by Edward S. Curtis in 1930.

According to tribal tradition, during the 17th century the Cheyenne had been driven by the Ho hé ( Assiniboine ) from the Great Lakes region to present-day Minnesota and North Dakota, where they established villages.

On 9 September 1878, a portion of the Northern Cheyenne, led by Little Wolf and Dull Knife started they're trek back to the north.

In 2009 the Foglios and their colorist, Cheyenne Wright, won the first Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, for Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones.