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Many Cheyenne did not sign the treaty, and they continued to live and hunt on their traditional grounds in the Smokey Hill and Republican basins, between the Arkansas and the South Platte, where there were plentiful buffalo.
The central traditional government system of the Cheyenne was the " Arrow Keeper " followed by the " Council of Forty-Four ".
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.
West of the Kaw lived the warlike Cheyenne and Comanche, and to the north were the Pawnee, their traditional enemies.
The massacre disrupted the traditional Cheyenne power structure, because of the deaths of eight members of the Council of Forty-Four.
By the 1860s, as conflict between Indians and encroaching whites intensified, the Dog Soldiers and military societies within other Cheyenne bands countered the influence of the traditional Council of Forty-Four chiefs who, as more mature men, took a larger view and were more likely to favor peace with the whites.
The events at Sand Creek dealt a fatal blow to the traditional Cheyenne clan system and the authority of its Council of Chiefs.
In 1861, ten days before the establishment of the territory, the Arapaho and Cheyenne agreed with the U. S. to give up most their areas of the plains to white settlement but were allowed to live in their larger traditional areas, so long as they could tolerate homesteaders near their camps.
The two central institutions of traditional Cheyenne tribal governance were the Council of Forty-Four and the military societies, including the Dog Soldiers.
Prior to the peace council held at Bent's Fort in 1840, the Algonquian-speaking Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho were allied against their traditional enemies, the Comanche, Kiowa, and Plains Apache, who belonged to different language families and cultures.
Losses in the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 further disrupted the traditional Cheyenne kinship system.
The region around the Big Horn, Powder and Tongue rivers is the traditional summer hunting grounds for numerous Native American tribes: Lakota Sioux, Crow, Cheyenne and Cree.
In 1863, European Americans had blazed the Bozeman Trail through the heart of the traditional territory of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Lakota.
In 1876, by contrast, the Shoshone fought alongside the U. S. Army in the Battle of the Rosebud, as it was against their traditional enemies, the Lakota and Cheyenne.
He allied Crow with the whites when the war for the West was being fought, because the Sioux and Cheyenne ( who were opposing white settlement of the area ) were the traditional enemies of the Crow.
He was chosen one of the " Old Man " chiefs among the Council of Forty-four, a high honor in traditional Cheyenne culture.
At the age of about 18, he volunteered to serve as a scout with the United States Army on April 10, 1876, in its campaign against the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne, traditional enemies of the Crow.
He volunteered to serve as a scout with the United States Army against the traditional enemies of the Crow, the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne along with fellow Crow warriors such as White Man Runs Him, Curly, White Swan, Half Yellow Face, and Hairy Moccasin.
The Cheyenne Botanic Gardens functions as a traditional public botanic garden, municipal nursery and community garden.
On March 8 and 9, 2003, some bundle keepers and traditional spiritual leaders from Arapaho, Cheyenne, Cree, Dakotah, Lakota, and Nakota Nations met and issued a proclamation that non-Natives would be banned from sacred altars and the Seven Sacred Rites, including and especially the Sun Dance, effective March 9, 2003 onward.
It is due to the courage and determination held by Morning Star and other Cheyenne leaders that the Northern Cheyenne still possess a homeland in their traditional country ( present-day Montana ).

traditional and government
The pamphlets are about law, the corporation, forms of government, the idea of freedom, the defense of liberty, the various lethargies which overtake our major institutions, the gap between traditional social ideals and the working mechanisms that have been set in motion for their realization.
This led to the first of a number of periods in which an outside power controlled Athens ; Often the outside power set up a local agent as political boss in Athens ; but when Athens was independent, it operated under its traditional form of government ; even the bosses, like Demetrius of Phalerum, kept the traditional institutions in formal existence.
The government of Vasil Radoslavov aligned the country with Germany and Austria-Hungary, even though this meant also becoming an ally of the Ottomans, Bulgaria's traditional enemy.
With many traditional domestic Liberal policies now regarded as irrelevant, he focused the party on opposition to both the rise of Fascism in Europe and the appeasement foreign policy of the British government, arguing that intervention was needed, in contrast to the Labour calls for pacifism.
An important initiative begun in 1981 and carried on until today, aimed at modernizing the use of Information and Communication technology, greatly contributed to disentangle the traditional bureaucratic and cumbersome clerical procedures in all dealings with branches of the government, from civil registry to import / export documentation, thereby fostering a more agile economy and a more efficient public administration.
Nevertheless, the Manchus adopted the Confucian norms of traditional Chinese government in their rule and were considered a Chinese dynasty.
Since the radical movement of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese government has become much more tolerant with the practice of traditional beliefs.
The first and the second are harmonized in traditional Westminster forms of government.
When the second novel, Dune Messiah, opens, Muad ’ Dib ’ s religion has sent his fanatical soldiers on an interstellar jihad, destroying the traditional structures of government and leaving billions dead.
Social conservatives believe that the government has a role in encouraging or enforcing what they consider traditional values or behaviors.
Unlike Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek was socially conservative, promoting traditional Chinese culture in the New Life Movement and rejecting western democracy and the nationalist democratic socialism that Sun Yat-sen and some other members of the KMT embraced in favor of a nationalist authoritarian government.
Most of England's traditional ruling classes regarded the Rump as an illegal government made up of regicides and upstarts.
During his reign, tribal organization began to erode as provincial government officials allowed land to change hands outside the traditional clan and tribal limits.
The French Revolution was a time of upheaval, especially towards traditional ideology, in almost every sense: the current monarch, King Louis XVI, was executed ; the Catholic Church was all but abolished ; a new calendar was created ; and a new Republican government was established.
Little authority was left for traditional officialdom, and government affairs were handled through the Fujiwara family's private administration.
Initial problems of the new government, marked by policy disputes between the moderate and traditional left wings of the SPD, resulted in some voter disaffection.
At the same time, the government nationalised land, removed French appointed and traditional chiefs from power, and broke ties with French government and companies.
All three understood Haiti's traditional way of exercising power, but they lacked a thorough understanding of what would be required to make the transition to an elected civilian government.
But the government did little to address the historical, underlying structural problems of the economy — its overdependence on too few traditional commodities and lack of investment.
Most of the government's new policies clashed directly with the traditional Afghan understanding of Islam, making religion one of the only forces capable of unifying the tribally and ethnically divided population against the unpopular new government, and ushering in the advent of Islamist participation in Afghan politics.
The Popular Party's head, Xhafer Ypi, formed a government in December 1921 with Fan S. Noli as foreign minister and Ahmed Bey Zogu as internal affairs minister, but Noli resigned soon after Zogu resorted to repression in an attempt to disarm the lowland Albanians despite the fact that bearing arms was a traditional custom.
The last of the above often forms the basis for the simplification of many traditional Chinese characters by the government of the People's Republic of China.
Areas that were shired by 1607 and continued in existence down to the local government reforms of 1836, 1898 and 2001 are sometimes referred to as " traditional " or " historic " counties.

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