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The Arapaho acquired horses in the early 1700s from other tribes, which changed their way of life. They became nomadic people, using the horses as pack and riding animals. They could transport greater loads, and travel more easily by horseback to hunt more easily and widely, increasing their success in hunting on the Plains.
Carl Sweezy was born in 1881 near the Darlington Agency on the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Reservation in Indian Territory. His Arapaho name was Wó’oteen (new Arapaho orthography; old spelling - Wattan), meaning "Black." Sweezy's father was Hinan Ba Seth, meaning "Big Man." [1] His tribe still hunted buffalo when he was a child. [3]
Harvey Pratt, Cheyenne & Arapaho artist from Oklahoma. Harvey Phillip Pratt (born 1941) is an American forensic artist and Native American artist, who has worked for over forty years in law enforcement, completing thousands of composite drawings and hundreds of soft tissue postmortem reconstructions. [1]
The Arapaho call themselves Inun-ina meaning "our people" or "people of our own kind." The Arapaho are one of the westernmost tribes of the Algonquian language family. Members of the Northern Arapaho who live on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming call the Oklahoma group Nawathi'neha or "Southerners."
Location of Arapahoe County in Colorado. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Arapahoe County, Colorado.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States.
CATV channel 47'' is the tribe's low power FCC licensed television station. CATV's call letters are K35MV-D. The Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma Culture and Heritage Program teaches hand games, powwow dancing and songs, horse care and riding, buffalo management, and Cheyenne and Arapaho language, and sponsored several running events. [11]
Arapaho Joe and Charlie Utter at the grave of Wild Bill Hickok. Born March 14, 1838. near ... Early life. Utter was born in 1838 near Niagara Falls, ...
Little Owl, a friendly middle-aged chief, [4] was selected as the Arapaho head chief to sign the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851). [5] From the South Arapaho were Cute Nose and Big Man. [6] Autho-nishah, an elder of the Arapaho nation, urged Little Owl and other signers to make a moral commitment to honor the provisions of the treaty.