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arapaho

n. A member of the Arapaho people. n. 1 A Native American people of Wyoming and Oklahoma. 2 The Algonquian language of this people.

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Arapaho, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 748
Housing Units (2000): 300
Land area (2000): 0.700763 sq. miles (1.814967 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.700763 sq. miles (1.814967 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02500
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.577014 N, 98.962370 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73620
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Arapaho

The Arapaho (in French: Arapahos, Gens de Vache) are a tribe of Native Americans 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. The Arapaho language, Heenetiit, is an Algonquian language closely related to Gros Ventre (Ahe/A'ananin), whose people are seen as an early offshoot of the Arapaho. Blackfeet and Cheyenne are the other Algonquian-speakers on the Plains, but their languages are quite different from Arapaho.

By the 1850s, Arapaho bands formed two tribes: 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.

Arapaho (disambiguation)

The Arapaho are a tribe of Native Americans who originally lived in what is now eastern Colorado and Wyoming.

Arapaho or Arapahoe may also refer to:

  • Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, federally recognized tribe of Northern Arapaho in Wyoming
  • Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, federally recognized tribe of Southern Arapaho in Oklahoma
  • Arapaho language

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Indian terms taken directly into English by the first colonists come from the two eastern families: the Iroquois confederacy, whose members included the Mohawk, Cherokee, Oneida, Seneca, Delaware and Huron tribes, and the even larger Algonquian group, which included Algonquin, Arapaho, Cree, Delaware, Illinois, Kickapoo, Narragansett, Ojibwa, Penobscot, Pequot and Sac and Fox, among many others.

It was only in silence, the Arapahos believed, that you could hear the Divine drawing near.

Father John knew the Arapahos considered the Mass only one of the many ways to worship the Great Mystery, the Shining Man Above.

With her round face and stocky build, the old woman had the look of the Cheyenne, or the Shyela, as the Arapahos called the people who had traveled with them across the plains.

He was thinking about what Banner had said: The Lander police broke up a party of Arapahos Friday night.

Ten miles up Sage Canyon in the foothills of the Wind River Mountains, it was the place Lean Bear had chosen for his family when the Arapahos came to the reservation a hundred years ago.

The Arapahos had insisted the entry resemble a tipi, with the door facing the east and the rising sun, like the dwellings in the Old Time.

It was similar to his idea of purgatory, except the Arapahos believed the Day of the Death ended on the third day, when the body was buried.

He wanted to believe the Arapahos would vote for the mission, if they had the choice.

The lobby was almost empty: two Arapahos waiting on the metal chairs, thumbing through magazines.

He returned two calls, both of which turned out to be from Arapahos wanting to know if St.

The Arapahos believed there was a healing grace in the touch of human fingers.

The Arapahos will think that the Jesuits--that I--have abandoned them, and it will make it easier for them to accept your proposal.

Father John told her how he had been spending as much time as possible with the old couple, how the Arapahos had rallied around, and how Ike Yellow Calf had made it his business to look after them.

Longarm had been taught to read sign by some of the best in the world: Apaches, Arapahos, Crows.