Native American Indian Pictures and History: Cheyenne

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Friday, August 7, 2020

Native American Color Picture Gallery, Including Cheyenne, Pueblo and Sioux Indians

Native American color-tinted portrait of a Cheyenne Indian

Native American Portrait of an unknown Indian from an unknown tribe.

Native American color-tinted portrait of a Pueblo Indian

Another Native American color-tinted photo of an unknown Native American woman

Native American color-tinted portrait of Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux Indian tribe

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Cheyenne Indian Sun Dancers

Cheyenne Indians at a Sun Dance, by Edward S. Curtis, circa 1910. The Sun Dance is practiced primarily by tribes in the Upper Plains and Rocky Mountain areas. This annual ceremony is typically performed at the summer solstice (the time of longest daylight), with preparations beginning up to a year before the ceremony.

Monday, April 4, 2016

Native American Indian Tribes Locations in North America

Map Native American tribes location Apache, Choctaw, Seminole,Shawnee, Navajo, Ute,Shoshone, Paiute, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Crow, Cree

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Cheyenne Indian Scaffold Burials

Interesting and valuable from the extreme attention paid to details is the following account of a burial case discovered by Dr. George M. Sternberg, United States Army, and furnished by Dr. George A. Otis, United States Army, Army Medical Museum, Washington, D.C. It relates to the Cheyennes of Kansas.

The case was found, Brevet Major Sternberg states, on the banks of Walnut Creek, Kansas, elevated about eight feet from the ground by four notched poles, which were firmly planted in the ground. The unusual care manifested in the preparation of the case induced Dr. Sternberg to infer that some important chief was inclosed in it. Believing that articles of interest were inclosed with the body, and that their value would be enhanced if the were received at the Museum as left by the Indians, Dr. Sternberg determined to send the case unopened.

I had the case opened this morning and an inventory made of the contents. The case consisted of a cradle of interlaced branches of white willow, about six feet long, 163three feet broad, and three feet high, with a flooring of buffalo thongs arranged as a net-work. This cradle was securely fastened by strips of buffalo-hide to four poles of ironwood and cottonwood, about twelve feet in length. These poles doubtless rested upon the forked extremities of the vertical poles described by Dr. Sternberg. The cradle was wrapped in two buffalo robes of large size and well preserved. On removing these an aperture eighteen inches square was found at the middle of the right-side of the cradle or basket. Within appeared other buffalo robes folded about the remains, and secured by gaudy-colored sashes. Five robes were successively removed, making seven in all. Then we came to a series of new blankets folded about the remains. There were five in all—two scarlet, two blue, and one white. These being removed, the next wrappings consisted of a striped white and gray sack, and of a United States Infantry overcoat, like the other coverings nearly new. We had now come apparently upon the immediate envelope of the remains, which it was now evident must be those of a child. These consisted of three robes, with hoods very richly ornamented with bead-work. These robes or cloaks were of buffalo-calf skin about four feet in length, elaborately decorated with bead-work in stripes. The outer was covered with rows of blue and white bead-work, the second was green and yellow, and the third blue and red. All were further adorned by spherical brass bells attached all about the borders by strings of beads.