Arapaho. The Arapaho are a Native American people historically living on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming.
They were close allies of the Cheyenne tribe and loosely aligned with the Lakota and Dakota. By the 1850s, Arapaho bands formed two tribes, namely the Northern Arapaho and Southern Arapaho.
Since 1878, the Northern Arapaho have lived with the Eastern Shoshone on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming and are federally recognized as the Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River Reservation. The Southern Arapaho live with the Southern Cheyenne in Oklahoma.
Together, their members are enrolled as the federally recognized Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. It is uncertain where the word Arapaho came from.
Europeans may have derived it from the Pawnee word for trader, iriiraraapuhu, or it may have been a corruption of a Crow word for tattoo, alapuuxaache. The Arapaho autonym is or. They refer to their tribe as. The Cheyenne called them or; the Dakota as, and the Lakota and Assiniboine referred to them as. The Caddo called them, the Wichita, and the Comanche, all names signifying dog-eaters. The Pawnee, Ute and other tribes also referred to them with names signifying dog-eaters. The Northern Arapaho, who called themselves or, were known as or to the Southern Arapaho, whereas the latter were called by their northern kin or. The Northern Arapaho were also known as. The Arapaho recognize five main divisi
They were close allies of the Cheyenne tribe and loosely aligned with the Lakota and Dakota. By the 1850s, Arapaho bands formed two tribes, namely the Northern Arapaho and Southern Arapaho.
Since 1878, the Northern Arapaho have lived with the Eastern Shoshone on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming and are federally recognized as the Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River Reservation. The Southern Arapaho live with the Southern Cheyenne in Oklahoma.
Together, their members are enrolled as the federally recognized Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. It is uncertain where the word Arapaho came from.
Europeans may have derived it from the Pawnee word for trader, iriiraraapuhu, or it may have been a corruption of a Crow word for tattoo, alapuuxaache. The Arapaho autonym is or. They refer to their tribe as. The Cheyenne called them or; the Dakota as, and the Lakota and Assiniboine referred to them as. The Caddo called them, the Wichita, and the Comanche, all names signifying dog-eaters. The Pawnee, Ute and other tribes also referred to them with names signifying dog-eaters. The Northern Arapaho, who called themselves or, were known as or to the Southern Arapaho, whereas the latter were called by their northern kin or. The Northern Arapaho were also known as. The Arapaho recognize five main divisi
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