A Cheyenne woman and her horse

Previously farmers in what is now minnesota during the 1600's and 1700's, the Cheyenne found themselves under attack and harrasment from neigbouring Sioux and Ojibwe Tribes, which gradually forced them west and into Colorado by the mid 1700's where they began raising the wild horses to hunt buffalo. When european settlers began arriving on their land they first used them to hunt, then by 1850 they were experts in both horsemanship and warfare against other tribes and europeans with the new Thunder Sticks