Tsetsehesahese

The Tsetsehesahese were the main Cheyenne branch, Algonquian-speaking Indians whose autonym means 'those who are like this'. At European contact in the sixteenth century they lived in Minnesota's woodlands, farming and harvesting wild rice.

In the seventeenth century the Assiniboine and Ojibwe drove them west, and they reached the Missouri in 1676. There they learned earth-lodge village life from the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara. Around 1730 they passed the horse to the Lakota. Their prophet Sweet Medicine was said to have received the Sacred Arrows on Bear Butte and organized the Council of Forty-four over ten bands.

Lakota seized much of their Black Hills land by 1776. They allied with the Arapaho around 1811, signed a friendship treaty with the United States in 1825, lost the Sacred Arrows to the Pawnee around 1830 and merged with the Suhtai after 1832.