Search for crossword answers and clues
Located in the southeastern corner of the state
Answer for the clue "Located in the southeastern corner of the state ", 8 letters:
cheyenne
Alternative clues for the word cheyenne
Word definitions for cheyenne in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1778, from French Canadian, from Dakota Sahi'yena , a diminutive of Sahi'ya , a Dakotan name for the Cree people.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cheyenne , formerly known as PlayStation is a large catamaran created for the 2000 around the world race known as The Race . Like its competitors, PlayStation was created for sheer speed, pushing the state of the art in materials, construction, and operation. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheyennes \Chey*ennes"\, n. pl.; sing. cheyenne . (Ethnol.) A warlike tribe of indians, related to the blackfeet, formerly inhabiting the region of Wyoming, but now mostly on reservations in the Indian Territory. They are noted for their horsemanship.
Usage examples of cheyenne.
There was also considerable movement: the Blackfoot and Cheyenne, for example, began as eastern seaboard Indians, members of the Algonquian family, before pushing west into the plains.
He joined a band of Cheyenne and Sioux living in the foothills of the Bitterroot Range and eventually earned a position of high authority and respect among them.
Like Mark, she carried her bedroll on her Cheyenne roll saddle but instead of a Manilla rope had her blacksnake whip strapped to its horn.
When the English and the French reached North America, it had happened to the Huron and the Mohegan and the Cherokee, and was happening even now to the Sioux and the Cheyenne and the Apache.
They were Piutes and Hopis and Navahos and Cheyennes and other Indians, and the Great Spirit was not happy about them.
Minneconjou, Uncapapa, Teton and Santee, Sans Arc and Black Foot, leagued with their only rivals in plainscraft and horsemanship and strategy, the Cheyennes, thronged to that wild and beautiful land once the home of the Crows.
Southern Cheyenne protohistoric knife, hafted with rawhide to a willow-wood handle.
NORAD, General Ralph Eberhart, was en route to the NORAD operations center in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, when the shootdown order was communicated on the air threat conference call.
To give just a few examples, anywhere from 70 to 600 Cheyenne may have been killed in the Sand Creek massacre of 1864, about 103 Cheyenne were slaughtered at Washita in 1868, 250 Shoshoni were murdered at Bear River in 1863, and perhaps 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee in 1890.
Penobscot, Algonquin, Huron, Ojibway, Mohawk, Yakima, Okanagan, Tlingit, Chinook, Beaver, Tanana, Cree, Bannock, Crow, Shoshone, Cheyenne.
Miss Travers drove out of Cheyenne, and as the town grew small in the distance, Sophie realized this was the first time in many years she had been out on the prairie in anything but a train.
Gesturing with the screwdriver, Pete described a stretch of hilly territory not too far from Cheyenne where it would be easy to sight, hypnotize, and drop a pretty little whitetail deer.
Back in Lima on Saturday morning, after watching the AeroLibertad Cheyenne 11 depart, Rita Abrams had been taken completely by surprise on two counts.
Rita Abrams told the Cheyenne 11 pilot, Oswaldo Zileri, as they approached the Sion airstrip-first point of call on their aerial itinerary.
With her round face and stocky build, the old woman had the look of the Cheyenne, or the Shyela, as the Arapahos called the people who had traveled with them across the plains.