Cheyenne
A people
Background
Cheyenne delegations were at the treaty council of September 1851 that became the Fort Laramie Treaty. Four chiefs represented them, and NPS estimates more than 10,000 people gathered at the council. Twenty-five federally recognized Nations are associated with that 1851 treaty today. Two Cheyenne governments sit on Grand Teton National Park's list of 24 associated tribes, the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana. A second park page looks at the valley before Europeans arrived. It names the Shoshone, Bannock, Blackfoot, Crow, Flathead, Gros Ventre and Nez Perce as peoples who came to hunt animals, to gather plants and to collect rocks and minerals, and says most of them left the mountains for milder places with the coming of winter. When a second Fort Laramie treaty was negotiated in 1868, the parties NPS names are the Oglala, Miniconjou and Brulé bands of Lakota people, the Yanktonai Dakota and the Arapaho.
Parks on its homelands
Sources
- https://www.nps.gov/grte/getinvolved/associated-tribes.htm
- https://www.nps.gov/grte/learn/historyculture/ind.htm
- https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/horse-creek-treaty.htm
- https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/finding-the-horse-creek-treaty-of-1851-site-an-interdisciplinary-approach-to-national-historic-landmark-designation.htm
Checked September 2026.