Volume 9 Article 5 Issue 4 Summer 7-15-1990 Cheyenne Voices Karen McKellips Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westview Recommended Citation McKellips, Karen (1990) "Cheyenne Voices," Westview: Vol. 9 : Iss. 4 , Article 5. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westview/vol9/iss4/5 This Nonfiction is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Westview by an authorized administrator of SWOSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. CHEYENNE sent for punish ment and to CHEYENNE prevent further uprisings to imprisonment at VOICES Fort Marion in St. By Dr. Karen McKellips Augustine, Flor ida. The group hen Western Oklahoma also included was opened to white settle Lone Wolf, who ment, the voices of the Chey was among 250 enne and other Native Ameri Klowas who had cans were already here. The surrendered at Fort Sill the federal government's power had Illustrations by month before. years’ before decided this to be the place John Crawford where the Cheyenne must live. Yet, here, Some of those as in so many other places and with so chosen to go were picked at random and many other tribes with the coming of others because of participation in certain white settlement, the federal government incidents. and the dominant white culture, officially Among the Cheyenne were Making and unofficially, blatantly and subtly, Medicine (Okuhhatuh), who had partici undertook to replace the Cheyenne voice pated in the battle of Adobe Walls; Medi and the Cheyenne ways, to minimize, even cine Water (Mihuhyeuimup); White Man eliminate, this voice in Western Okla (Owussait); Long Back (Chaseyunnuh); homa.