Editing Cheyenne (section)

===Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation===
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[[File:Flag of Northern Cheyenne.svg|thumb|Flag of the [[Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation]] in Montana]]
[[File:WhiteBuffalo.jpg|thumb|upright|[[White Buffalo (Cheyenne leader)|White Buffalo]], a Northern Cheyenne chief who received the rank of sergeant in the United States Army.]]

The Cheyenne who traveled to [[Fort Keogh]] (present-day [[Miles City, Montana]]), including Little Wolf, settled near the fort.<ref name="Brown, Dee 1970 pp.332-349"/> Many of the Cheyenne worked with the army as scouts. The Cheyenne scouts were pivotal in helping the Army find [[Chief Joseph]] and his band of [[Nez Perce tribe|Nez Percé]] in northern Montana. Fort Keogh became a staging and gathering point for the Northern Cheyenne. Many families began to migrate south to the [[Tongue River (Montana)|Tongue River]] watershed area, where they established homesteads.<ref name="WE, THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE PEOPLE">[https://archive.org/stream/wenortherncheyen2008amblrich/wenortherncheyen2008amblrich_djvu.txt "WE, THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE PEOPLE]: Our Land, Our History, Our Culture", Chief Dull Knife College. Page 30. Accessed September 20, 2009</ref>

[[File:Montana Indian Reservations.svg|thumb|left|Map of Indian Reservations in the state of Montana including the Northern Cheyenne Reservation.]]
The US established the Tongue River Indian Reservation, now named the [[Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation]], of {{convert|371200|acre|km2}} by the executive order of [[Chester A. Arthur|President Chester A. Arthur]] November 16, 1884. It excluded Cheyenne who had homesteaded further east near the Tongue River. The western boundary is the [[Crow Indian Reservation]]. On March 19, 1900, [[William McKinley|President William McKinley]] extended the reservation to the west bank of the Tongue River, making a total of {{convert|444157|acre|km2|0}}. Those who had homesteaded east of the Tongue River were relocated to the west of the river.<ref name="WE, THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE PEOPLE"/>

The Northern Cheyenne, who were sharing the Lakota land at [[Pine Ridge Indian Reservation]] were finally allowed to return to the Tongue River on their own reservation. Along with the Lakota and Apache, the Cheyenne were the last nations to be overpowered and forced on reservations. (The [[Seminole]] tribe of Florida never made a treaty with the US government.)

The Northern Cheyenne were given the right to remain in the north, near the [[Black Hills]], land which they consider sacred. The Cheyenne also managed to retain their culture, religion and language. Today, the Northern Cheyenne Nation is one of the few American Indian nations to have control over the majority of its land base, currently 98%.