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From living a life of peace and freedom to living a life of modified culture and forced land the Cheyenne Indians once culture of ritual and nature took a turn for the worse. In the Early days the Cheyenne Culture was proud, peaceful and self sufficient, they valued their freedom and beliefs and stayed within there culture. They maintained their Land and their ways of life and didn’t bother the people that lived around them. But in the early 1800’s foreign settlers moved in and forced them onto reservations which changed their entire way of life. The effect of forced reservations on the lives of the Cheyenne Indian tribes was that freedom was taken away, they were bound to strict areas of land, and their earlier cultures had to be modified.

In the beginning the Cheyenne Indian tribe was a proud, peaceful and well reserved tribe. They lived self – sufficient lives and could produce everything they needed from the lands around them, and the animal herds they followed. Their religion and families are what they cared about the most, other things were not that important and they did not get involved in the battles happening around them. But the early 1800’s brought a time where their lives would be turned upside down, foreign tribes invaded and took over the lands that they lived on forcing them to move onto strictly confined lands called “Reservations”. Living on a reservation means a different life, who ever lives on a reservation may face political and legal difficulties with the reservation owners. Their cultural or moral customs were modified into what foreign leaders believed or completely ceased. Their lives were morphed into what the foreign tribes wanted them to be like and were forced to give up a lot of the freedom that they once had. Reservations were viewed as unfair to the tribes forced onto them, but to the people who own the reservations or accept it, don’t see a problem. The Cheyenne Tribe faced a lot of difficulties with they way they were just thrown aside onto small not very arable land, they thought this was wrong for them to be doing, not only to them but to other Indian tribes. Eventually they had enough of being forced off their land and fought “The Battle of Little Big Horn” in 1876 attempting to get some; if any of their land back, it was a surprising victory and they gained control of their old lands once again. But this didn’t last long until the foreign invaders, came back and retook the land again.

This changed the way people viewed indians these days, they view them as a threat, or bad people who only want to steal from you, which isn't right at all. The reservations and people who own them are what morphed this new belief of today's population of Indians.

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