The
Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation (
Tsehéstáno in
Cheyenne, formerly named the Tongue River Indian Reservation) is home of the
federally recognized Northern
Cheyenne Tribe. Located in southeastern
Montana, the
reservation is approximately 444,000 acres in size and home to approximately 5,000 Cheyenne people. The tribal and government headquarters are in
Lame Deer, which is 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 east of the site of the 1876
Battle of the Greasy Grass.