Chapter 2: Cheyenne Tribe
Maheo was not far off when describing how life would change. Although horses remain a normal farm animal in the United States, horses were not indigenous to North America until European expansion. Horses, in this example, are a way of seeing how colonialism and expansion can affect a tribe. Introducing horses changed the culture and lives of the tribes that used them, the Cheyenne here, much like most of colonialism and expansion. In this section, you will learn how expansion in the northwest region, now known as Wyoming affected the Cheyenne culture. When we talk about culture throughout this Scalar, we are referring to their ways of life that changed, their survival methods, population, and relationships with surrounding tribes and European explorers and merchants.