Listen the Cheyenne language

  Here, we would like to present various language materials to show the riches of the Cheyenne language. We want to present you how this language sounds, how is melodious, complex, and interesting. We wish you would perceive it not only through your ears but through your heart too. Listen Cheyenne as much as possible and let it to live in your mind, your heart, and your blood!

_{An on-line audio course of Cheyenne}

We can listen and learn Cheyenne on a new website of the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes Language Department. It offers a few audio lessons of the Cheyenne language.

> Level 1: Greetings, School, Animals, Colors, Numbers, Shapes, Family, Body, Basic Phrases

> Level 2: Weather, Foods, Feelings, Nature, Insects, House, Playground, Fruits

> Level 3: Morning, Days, Clothing, Environment, Games, Opposites, Descriptions, I See It

_{Nátsėhésenėstsétáno}

An audio compilation designed especially for Cheyenne children. They can listen and be fully surrounded with the Cheyenne language, traditions, and feelings for a little while. In the added booklet, you will find a complete transcription of the Cheyenne track translated into English and informations on included Cheyenne songs. This compilation is a modest contribution of the Honóxease project team.

> sound file in mp3 (7.5 MB)

> booklet in pdf (100 kB)

_{The story of first corn and buffalo}

The myth on old woman living in spring who called two similarly dressed and painted young men and gave them first corn and buffalo.

Told by Albert Hoffman, a Southern Cheyenne elder.

_{The story of the Great Race}

The myth of the Great Race which a hardy magpie won and therefore humans could begin to hunt buffalo and other game.

Told by James Ant, a Northern Cheyenne elder, in 1979.

_{Two Cheyenne songs for the pinching game}

Sung by four Southern Cheyenne women, Mary Armstrong in 1990 and Imogene Jones, Mary Lou Stoneroad Prairiechief, and Joan Swallow in 1991.

_{Let's Talk Cheyenne} 

_{An audio course of the Cheyenne language}