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.
Example Sentences
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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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So the Sioux, the Cheyennes, the Kiowas and many of the Arapahos arose, to close the wagon trails, plunder the stage stations, drive out the settlers, and save the buffalo.
From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
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 Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin