Our first treaty with the Cheyennes was mnade in 1825, at the mouth of the Teton River. It was mercly a treaty of am- ity and friendship, and acknowlcdgment on the part of thc Cheyennes of the "supremacy" of the United States. Two years before this, Prosident Monroe reported the Ciayees" to be "a tribe.of three thousand two hundred and fifty souls dwelling and hunting tributary of the Missouri, a little above the Great Bend." years later, Catlin, the famous painter of Indians, met a " Shi enne" chief and squaw among the Sioux, and painted their portraits. He says, "The Shiennes are a small tribe of about three thousand in number, living neighbors to the Sioux on the west of them, between the Black lills and the Rocky Moun on a river of the same name, a western Ten tains. There is no finer race of men than these in North Amcr ica, and none superior in stature, except the Osages: scarcely man in the tribe full grown who is less than six feet in height." They are "the richest in horses of any tribe on the contincnt; iving where the greatest herds of wild horses arc grazing the prairies, whieh they catch in great numbers, and sell to the Sioux, Mandans, and other tribes, as well as to the fur-traders.

"These people arc the most desperate set of warriors and horseracn, having carried on almost unceasing wars with the Pawnees and Blackfeet. on The chicf was clothed in a handsome dress of deer-skins, very neatly garnished with broad bands of porcupine-quill work down the sleeves of his shirt and leg-