Tsetsehesahese

The Tsitsistas were an Algonquian-speaking people and a principal component of the Cheyenne. They lived in villages in Minnesota before moving west to the Missouri River.

Cheyenne reached the Missouri River in 1676. The Tsitsistas adopted horses and introduced them to Lakota bands around 1730. The Cheyenne Council of Forty-four brought together chiefs from ten bands; around 1811 the Cheyenne allied with the Arapaho, and after 1832 the Tsitsistas merged with the closely related Suhtai.