Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation

Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation Tsėhéstáno
Indian Reservation
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Location of Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation
Country	United States
States	Montana
Established	1884
Headquarters	Lame Deer
Government
• Governing body	Tribal council
• Tribal president	Serena Wetherelt (acting)
Population  (2013)
• Total	4,939
Time zone	UTC-7 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (MDT)

The Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation (Cheyenne: Tsėhéstáno; formerly named the Tongue River) is the federally recognized Northern Cheyenne tribe. Located in southeastern Montana, the reservation is approximately 690 square miles (1,800 km²) in size and home to approximately 6,000 Cheyenne people. The tribal and government headquarters are located in Lame Deer, also the home of the annual Northern Cheyenne pow wow.

The reservation is bounded on the east by the Tongue River and on the west by the Crow Reservation. There are small parcels of non-contiguous off-reservation trust lands in Meade County, South Dakota, northeast of the city of Sturgis. Its timbered ridges that extend into northwestern South Dakota are part of Custer National Forest and it is approximately 40 miles (64 km) east of the site of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn.

According to tribal enrollment figures as of March 2013, there were approximately 12,266 enrolled tribal members, of which about 6,012 were residing on the reservation,^{[1][incomplete short citation]} with approximately 91% of the population Native American (full or part blood quantum) and 72.8% identifying as Cheyenne. Slightly more than a quarter of the population five years or older spoke a language other than English.^[1] Members of the Crow Nation also live on the reservation.