Example Sentences

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The meaning was clear: The Lakotas and the Cheyennes would soon win a spectacular victory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

“I see this newspaper clipping and it’s Southern Cheyennes in St. Augustine, Fla., in 1875. I know enough about my tribe’s history to know that we were never in Florida.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

For some Cheyennes, every treaty that peace chiefs signed and that the U.S. government broke made violence look more sensible than acquiescence.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022

From the Rocky Mountains, Cheyennes and Arapahos also acquired horses from New Mexico and used them to move southward and join the hunting, raiding, and trading culture of the Plains.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

We have marched eighty-five miles in thirty-one hours, and here we are, square in their front, ready and eager to dispute with the Cheyennes their crossing on the morrow.

From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by King, Charles