Tsehestano

## Tsêhéstáno, capital of the Očéti Šakówiŋ

* **Population:** 2,950,783 (2075)
* **Government:** Day-to-day city governmental services are overseen by a city chief. Like other government officials, city chiefs are appointed by the Council of Chiefs and serve for a fouryear term. Many of the administrative posts at the local level are dominated by the Hiraacá  tribe's Lost Willow Society. The current city chief for the Tsêhéstáno sprawl is Gaagii from the Nuuchi-u tribe, a member of the White Tree Society, breaking the long line of Hiraacá city chiefs that stretched back for over thirty years. Gaagii was elected this year, 2075. The City Chief is responsible for overseeing the local bureaus. In the Očéti Šakówiŋ, these bureaus vary from sprawl to sprawl. The local bureaus for Tsêhéstáno are: Public Safety, Public Works, Commerce, Local Taxation Services, Education, Zoning, and Open Spaces. The city chief is responsible for appointing the heads of those bureaus, as well as directors who manage and oversee contracts with the various corporations and take care of city services. These heads only serve for as long as the city chief. Every four years a new administration is appointed, and the cycle begins again.
* **Law Enforcement:** All law enforcement in Tsêhéstáno is under the jurisdiction of the “Snipes”, the local branch of the Sioux National Police force, under the Tsêhéstáno Chief of Public Safety, who is under the SNP but is appointed by the City Chief. City Chief Gaagnii has appointed Public Safety Chief Wambleeska from the Lakhota  tribe (White Feather Society).
* **Transportation:**

* + Tsêhéstáno Regional Airport provides local air flight, generally to and from the big air hub at Caspar International.
	+ Tsêhéstáno is on the Big Loop rail line, the primary railroad line in western North America.
	+ Interstate 25 is a major route for north and southbound traffic inside Tsêhéstáno, running along the eastern boundary of the Tsêhéstáno Military Complex. Interstate 80 handles west and eastbound traffic going through the sprawl. Other major roadways inside Tsêhéstáno include Business Loop Highway 80 and Highway 85. Highway 85 is a major thoroughfare running through the downtown section of Tsêhéstáno, as is Capitol Avenue.
	+ In 2058, Ares  won the contract to install a light-rail system to alleviate some of the congestion. This transit system runs through all major sectors of the city, with its central hub located at the corner of East 27th Street and Highway 85.
* Demographics (by Metatype): 72 % Oyate, 16 % Pte, 4% Wican, 3% Dwarf, 1% Waziya (includes Anog Ite ), 4% Other
* Demographics (by Citizenship): 62% Registered Member of Recognized Tribes, 25% Corporate Citizens, 7% Non-recognized Tribal Member, 6% Other Nationalities (\*SIN-holding citizens are estimated to encompass 97% of actual population).

Tsêhéstáno is the capital of both the Tetonwan CF and the whole of the Očéti Šakówiŋ. It is the focal point of wealth, power and high-tech toys. Tsêhéstáno is packed full of software corps and electronics manufacturing plants, but the city still has a rustic air to it. Even the slums are kinda homey.

One of the things that sets Tsêhéstáno apart as a bustling and vibrant sprawl today is at the heart of the city, you have the Sovereign Tribal Council headquarters and its surrounding office complex which plays host to representatives of each of the member nations of the Native American Nations (NAN) and its associated government agencies. You have the local sprawl government, and then you have the national government, represented by the Seven Council Fires, located in downtown Tsêhéstáno. With all these government officials and agencies concentrated in one city, it brings with it a horde of lobbyists and lawyers of all types, all attempting to influence policy and establish laws that are beneficial to their employers. With such a conflux of the politically connected and the elite in one sprawl, you also get Big Business catering to the wants and needs of the elite and powerful, reaching all the way up the food chain to the megacorps and all the way down to lowly single-A corporations. All this economic activity regularly fills Tsêhéstáno’s coffers with a drekton of nuyen each year, bringing in an estimated six billion nuyen annually, making it by far the wealthiest sprawl in the Očéti Šakówiŋ.

The Tsêhéstáno sprawl does a very good job making sure everyone who is a permanent resident has a SIN, particularly those with a tribal affiliation. Most metahumans in the Očéti Šakówiŋ take pride in their heritage and don’t mind being in the system and identified with a particular tribe.

And many of those SINless  are from the small, unlawful Anglo groups who linger in Tsêhéstáno; gangers, shadowrunners, criminals, members of tribes that are not officially recognized within the Očéti Šakówiŋ, etc..

### History

The settlement that was later known as Tsêhéstáno was first plotted by on July 5, 1867, General Grenville M. Dodge and his survey crew for the Union Pacific Railroad where it would cross Crow Creek, a tributary of the South Platte River. The city was not named by Dodge, as his memoirs state, but rather by friends who accompanied him to the area Dodge called "Crow Creek Crossing".

Named ‘Cheyenne’ after the anglo name for the local Tsêhéstáno  people. On August 10, 1867, H. M. Hook was elected as Cheyenne's first mayor. The Union Pacific Railroad reached Cheyenne on November 13, 1867. The population at the time numbered over 4,000, and grew rapidly. This rapid growth earned the city the nickname "Magic City of the Plains".

In 1867, Fort D. A. Russell was established, 5 km west of the city. The fort was later renamed Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in 1977. The State Capitol of the old US state of ‘Wyoming ’ was constructed between 1886 and 1890, with further improvements being completed in 1917. The Wyoming Stock Growers Association met at The Cheyenne Club, which allegedly acted as an interim government for the territory. Many of the WSGA's rules and regulations became state laws.

In the chaos before the Awakening, Warren AFB was chosen as one of the sites for the ‘re-education camps’ used to intern natives, largely Shoshoni  and Nank’haanseine’nan from Wyoming’s Wind River reservation. When the Great Ghost Dance hit and the Great Ghost Dance War began, the Warren Camp was one of the first to break out. Led by SAIM activists the prisoners overpowered the surprised base personnel and used Warren’s armory to seize the nearby State Capitol. The Wind River activists soon made contact with the ‘Great Dakotah’ activists to the north, forming one of the most active and well-armed Native factions fighting under Daniel Howling Coyote.

When the dust had settled and the various Native American Nations were formed, the Očéti Šakówiŋ chose to honor the early support of their cause by making Cheyenne their capital, renaming it ‘Tsêhéstáno’ the endonym of the people the Anglos had called ‘Cheyenne’.

Since becoming the capital, Tsêhéstáno has grown by several orders of magnitude from a sleepy ranching town of around 50,000 before the Awakening to a sprawling modern metroplex of nearly three million today. This growth hasn’t just been driven by the government, but also by the Oyate Owa Yawa (the ‘University of Cheyenne’) and the related growth as the center of the Očéti Šakówiŋ’s famous electronics industry.

If it can be found in the Očéti Šakówiŋ, it can be found here. Tsêhéstáno is the beating silicon heart of the Očéti Šakówiŋ.

### Services

* **Fire Services:** Community Response Inc.
* **GridGuide:** Elk-Sedge Systems
* **Healthcare:** DocWagon
* **Matrix Services:** Očéti Šakówiŋ National Grid
* **Power:** Gaeatronics
* **Prisons:** Shiawase Corrections Services
* **Sanitation:** The Horizon Project
* **Public Transport:** Ares Transportation

### Economy

* Community Response Inc
* Ares Arms Cheyenne
* Henequen Enterprises
* High Plains Coding
* Toldeen Tech
* FTL Matrixware
* Eagle Security Services Inc.
* Gaeatronics
* Shiawase Sioux Services
* The Horizon Project
* Elk-Sedge Systems
* Saeder-Krupp Industries of Tsêhéstáno
* Native American Broadcasting Service

### Major Sites

* Mustang Arena
* Oyate Owa Yawa
* Council Fires Hall
* Očéti Šakówiŋ Judicial Court Building
* Tsêhéstáno City Lodge
* Sovereign Tribal Council Lodge
* Tsêhéstáno Regional Airport
* Tsêhéstáno Military Complex
* Očéti Šakówiŋ Public Works
* Sioux National Theater

### Neighborhoods

* Anglo Town
* No Boundries
* The Corporate Zone

### Hotspots

* Little Bighorn Bar
* Healing Winds Club and Telesma Shop
* Stripes
* Combat Boots
* Phoenix’s Tavern
* Intensity
* The Open Frontier
* The New Parthenon
* The Copper and Brass Club
* Destiny’s Link Club
* Vintage Wheels
* The Badge
* The Royal Fortune
* Chaya
* Yahto’s Sports Bar
* Oasis
* Ride Hard
* Crossroads
* The Chameleon’s Lair
* Liberty
* Cracked
* The Coyote Lounge
* The Tsêhéstáno Cantina
* The Haunted Coffin Club
* The Marble Paladin
* Spiritual Journey
* *Coffin Motels*

### Sports

* **Mustangs**, Combat Biking
* **Arrows**, Urban Brawl
* **Raiders**, Unkcela Pte

### Underworld

* Tiošpaye
* Ancients  (local representatives of the Koshari)
* First Nation (local representatives of the Komun’go Ring)
* Concrete Sidewinders
* Street Tricksters
* Cheyenne Brawlers

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