Arapaho
Americannoun
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Arapahos,
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Arapaho
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a member of a tribe of North American Indians of Algonquian speech stock, once dwelling in the Colorado plains and now in Oklahoma and Wyoming.
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an Algonquian language, the language of the Arapaho.
noun
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a member of a North American Indian people of the Plains, now living chiefly in Oklahoma and Wyoming
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the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
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This year there are three women jockeys with Rachel King on outsider Arapaho and Celine Gaudry entrusted with Geelong Cup winner Torranzino.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2025
Left Hand, an Arapaho veteran of Little Big Horn, later reflected on this transformation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
All in all, Orange, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, has turned up the dial on his characters.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
“It’s an amazing moment,” said Orange, who is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
The Seventh was the regiment defeated by the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho on June 25,1876.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
From the Rocky Mountains, Cheyennes and Arapahos also acquired horses from New Mexico and used them to move southward and join the hunting, raiding, and trading culture of the Plains.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Instead, it turned out to be a large group of Lakotas, Cheyennes, and Arapahos.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
Aleek-chea-ahoosh's training as a warrior began when he was a few years old, for the Crows were surrounded with enemies: Sioux, Arapahos, Blackfeet, Piegans, Cheyennes, Shoshones, Flatheads, Gros Ventres.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1850, he married, and joined his tribe as a warrior, it being then at war with the Navajos of New Mexico, and the Cheyennes and Arapahos of Colorado.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by W. H. Jackson
The Arapahos affiliate with the Cheyennes, with whom they have been on friendly terms for many years.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by W. H. Jackson
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