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They were profoundly religious; they believed that powerful spirits inhabited the four cardinal points, but the two predominant sacred figures were: Heammawihio who lived in the sky; and Ahtunowihio who inhabited the subsoil. They celebrated the Sun Dance and had a cosmic vision of complex symbology. Their religiosity was manifested …

The Cheyenne are a tribe from the northern Plains. Speaking the Algonquian tongue, but a search for their origins leads to the Great Lakes region, from whence they were forced to move, by the Chippewa and the Lakota, to lands further south. They had two types of dwellings: the wintery …