Arapaho

North American Plains Indians living along the Platte and Arkansas rivers. [Am. Hist.: EB, I: 477–478]

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Arapaho

an Indian tribe of the Algonquian group in North America. Originally the Arapahos were farmers and woodland hunters in the area of the Great Lakes plater they migrated to the plains; by the 18th and 19th centuries they were already well known as nomadic horse breeders and mounted buffalo hunters. During this period a military democratic structure with surviving elements of a matriarchal society took shape among the Arapahos. In religion they combined worship of the land with that of its harvest (the cult of the sun and the buffalo). Since the second half of the 19th century, the extermination of the buffalo and the seizure of Arapaho lands by colonizers put an end to their distinctive culture. Most of the Arapahos were herded into the Wind River Reservation (Wyoming, USA).

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The Cheyenne & Arapaho aren't the first tribes to grow a bison herd for internal and commercial uses.

Tribes to build production plant for bison meat

Many of the men in these three images were likely veterans of the fighting with Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho in the 1870s.

Baker & Johnston Photographs: Wind River Shoshone, 1880s

Ouachita and Arapaho began flowering 2 wk after the first 3 cultivars, and samples were taken on 1 May.

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The Wind River series is replete with sensitivity toward the Arapaho people and their way of life.

Night of the White Buffalo

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Margaret Coel's NIGHT OF THE WHITE BUFFALO (9780425264652, $26.95) provides a new Wind River novel and tells of Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley, who confront a killer after an amazing event.

Berkeley Prime Crime/Obsidian

John Chivington -- abolitionist, "Fighting Parson'' and Civil War hero -- and 700 men, responding to months of Indian raids on settlers and miners in eastern Colorado (and many coming off a binge), attacked a village of about 700 Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho on the high plains of southeastern Colorado.

Remembering Sand Creek Massacre

of Arizona) considers why so much fighting occurred between the US and various Indian tribes during the century following George Washington's presidency, and examines eight wars between the 1780s and 1877--the Ohio Valley War, the Red Stick War, the Arikara War, the Black Hawk War, the Minnesota Sioux War, the Cheyenne and Arapaho War, the Chiricahua Apache War, and the Nez Perce War--and the causes of each conflict (especially US expansion), the Native situation, events that created open warfare, and their similarities and differences.

Warrior nations; the United States and Indian peoples

He is separated from the parade by Arapaho warriors who want to remind him that they won the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Coel, Margaret. Killing Custer: A Wind River Mystery

The murder of an Arapaho tribal chairman involves his nephew and Father John O'Malley, a Jesuit priest who doesn't believe the nephew is a murderer.

The Mystery/Suspense Shelf