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Tsitsista means simply "the people" in the language of the Tsitsista. Some claim it actually means "the beautiful people". Well, we rather tend to call them Cheyenne, which doesn't sound too ugly either.

"Cheyenne" is derived from the Lakota word "Shyiela" and means "red-talkers" (as opposed to white-talkers) - people who speak an unintelligible idiom. However, despite the language problem the Cheyennes became close and in fact the only allies of the fierce Sioux tribes in the second half of the 19th century.

The name the Cheyennes gave themselves is not quite without justification. The Cheyennes were known for their pleasant features and their slender long-legged physique. Statistical measurements done by the Team of Franz Boas, the German-born founder of American anthropology, revealed that during this time the average Northern Cheyenne was taller than the average white American - and in fact taller than any other nationality we have records of.

The Cheyennes are also the tribe with the highest number of known woman warriors who even had a warrior society of their own.

It was a wild and beautiful life.
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