{"slug": "cheyenne", "label": "Cheyenne", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q322951", "qid": "Q322951", "description": "group of indigenous people of the Great Plains", "entries": 8, "years": 6, "span": [1825, 1876], "span_label": ["1825 CE", "1876 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Cheyenne people"], "related": [{"slug": "american-indian-wars", "label": "American Indian Wars", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "sioux", "label": "Sioux", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "united-states-army", "label": "United States Army", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "colorado", "label": "Colorado", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "montana", "label": "Montana", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "oklahoma", "label": "Oklahoma", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "comanche", "label": "Comanche", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1825, "year_label": "1825 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 6", "text": "July 6 – The U.S. Senate ratifies treaties with the Cheyenne tribe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341744335#July–September", "title": "1825", "revid": 1341744335, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1864, "year_label": "1864 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 29", "text": "November 29 – American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre – Colorado volunteers, led by Colonel John Chivington, massacre at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado (where they had been given permission to camp); many of the dead are subsequently mutilated.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369213895#November", "title": "1864", "revid": 1369213895, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1868, "year_label": "1868 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 27", "text": "November 27 – American Indian Wars – Battle of Washita River: In the early morning, United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on a band of Cheyenne living on reservation land with Chief Black Kettle, killing 103 Cheyenne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363668193#November", "title": "1868", "revid": 1363668193, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1874, "year_label": "1874 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 28", "text": "September 28 – Texas–Indian wars: U.S. Army Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie leads his force of 600 men on the successful raid of the last sanctuary of the Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne Indian tribes, a village inside the Palo Duro Canyon in Texas, and carries out their removal to the designated Indian reservations in Oklahoma.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371979117#September", "title": "1874", "revid": 1371979117, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1875, "year_label": "1875 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 9", "text": "November 9 – American Indian Wars: In Washington, D.C., Indian Inspector E.C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States (the Battle of the Little Bighorn is fought in Montana the next year).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371928758#November", "title": "1875", "revid": 1371928758, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1876, "year_label": "1876 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 17", "text": "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.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363589433#June", "title": "1876", "revid": 1363589433, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1876, "year_label": "1876 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 25", "text": "June 25/26 – 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 2,000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho, led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363589433#June", "title": "1876", "revid": 1363589433, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1876, "year_label": "1876 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 25", "text": "November 25 – American Indian Wars: Dull Knife Fight – In retaliation for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops under General Ranald S. Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River (Montana). The soldiers destroy all of the villagers' winter food and clothing, and then slash their ponies' throats.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363589433#November", "title": "1876", "revid": 1363589433, "section": "Events › November"}}]}