Arapahos
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pluralof Arapaho.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Arapahonouna 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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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
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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
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The Arapahos and the Southern Cheyennes traded in their buffalo robes here; the mountain Utes, and the Red River Comanches of northern Texas came in.
From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
The Arapahos were said to range into Brown's Park; the Utes were all along the Wonsits Valley and below it on both sides of the river.
From The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh