Arapaho
Americannoun
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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
They were my cheery guides as I drove through the Arapaho National Forest, surrounded by too many dead trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
Thinking about it all, Mr. Mosqueda said: “Even with this bad thing that happened, there’s a word in Arapaho, that says, ‘nih’oniitowoo.’
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
“Most of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho people who were here had villages in that valley.”
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
Burton, which, it would be inferred, were collected in 1860-'61, from the tribes met or learned of on the overland stage route, including Southern Dakotas, Utes, Shoshoni, Arapahos, Crows, Pani, and Apaches.
Without permission from their agents they traveled west into Wyoming, to talk with the Arapahos and Shoshonis at the Fort Washakie reservation.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
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