 Cheyenne is an Algonquian language  Their alphabet has 14 letters  Cheyenne language is musical with difficult verbs

 Men hunted food for tribe.  Cheyenne were great buffalo hunters.  They ate buffalo hearts, brains, liver and kidneys.

 Early on the Cheyenne lived in lodges made from the earth.  Later they made teepees out of buffalo hide.  The teepees could be moved easily.

 Cheyenne children played with dolls toys and games.  The children played games like Hoop and Dart game or Ring and Pin game.  Then women played Monshimout, a game with five stones and a basket.

 Warriors use bows and arrows, clubs and spears.  The Cheyenne used traps to catch animals.  They made arrowheads.

 They use dead animals skin as clothes  Their leaders wore fancy head dresses.  They wore breechcloths, pants, and deer skin dresses.

 Lewis and Clark met the Cheyenne Indian leader in  Cheyenne fought other tribes but not usually to their death.  Cheyenne women and men hunted buffalo together.

 The Cheyenne had dogs pull travois, a kind of sled.  They built rafts and traveled by river.  Once they got horses they traveled quicker and farther.

 We use animal’s skins to have clothes like they used buffalo.  They use rafts like we do.  they play a game like basket ball.

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