Nomadic range · approximate1700 – 1877 · 177 years

Cheyenne

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

No editorial summary yet for Cheyenne. The border provenance and the wars recorded for this polity are what the dataset holds.

Borders & accuracy

Nomadic range

A pastoralist or hunter-gatherer range whose extent shifted constantly with seasons and alliances.

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-traced from Waldman, Atlas of the North American Indian; Smithsonian Handbook vol. 13 (Plains)
SNAPSHOT1851
MATCHEDUnited States
POLITY TYPEnomadic-range

Wars of this empire16

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Arapaho-Cheyenne Alliance Conflicts1864–79
Regional · 5.0K dead
Battle of Platte Bridge1865
Regional
Battle of Powder1865
Regional
Battle of Hayfield Fight1867
Regional
Battle of Wagon Box Fight1867
Regional
Battle of Beaver Creek1868
Regional
Battle of Beecher Island1868
Regional
Battle of Adobe Walls1874
Regional
War Bonnet Creek1876
Regional
Battle of Solomon Forks1857
Minor
Battle of Ash Creek1864
Minor
Battle of Cedar Canyon1864
Minor
Battle of Fort Rice1865
Minor
Battle of Plum Creek, Nebraska1867
Minor
Battle of Sappa Creek1875
Minor
Battle of Crazy Woman Creek1876
Minor

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1700 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Cheyenne (1700 – 1877). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/cheyenne · Sources & methodology