The culture of the Cheyenne Indians of the American Great Plains.

The Cheyenne The Cheyenne Tribe, more commonly known as the Plains Indians, highly evolved through time due to the contributions of the Spaniards to the south and the other Europeans that came from the east. These contributions aided in the thriving of the Cheyenne, as hunting buffalo before the arrival of the horse was "not a productive enough enterprise to support a large population" (Service 114). This evolution from being an agriculturally based society to being "…

…ideals and traditions of the original Cheyenne Tribe, the tribe that existed before the implementation of horses, guns, and nomadic travel. These two sacred rituals allow the Cheyenne to hold on to the traditions that were once in place among the tribe. The ethnographic present occurred circa 1600, when the Cheyenne first came into contact with the Spanish who were occupying New Mexico. Reference Service, E.R. 1963. Profiles in Ethnology. New York: Harper and Row. 508 p.