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The Arapaho frequently encountered fur traders in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, and the headwaters of the Platte and Arkansas. They became well-known traders on the plains and bordering Rocky Mountains. The name Arapaho may have been derived from the Pawnee word Tirapihu (or Larapihu), meaning "he buys or trades" or "traders". The ...
The Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne and Arapaho were among the competing tribes. [70] The Cheyenne likely moved into the plains in the 17th and 18th century from Minnesota. By the mid-1800s, they lived with the Arapaho north of the Arkansas River near the site later developed as Bent's Fort in Colorado. [70] [71]
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]
Principal Chiefs of Arapaho Tribe, engraving by James D. Hutton, c. 1860. Arapaho interpreter Warshinun, also known as Friday, is seated at right.. Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Reservation were the lands granted the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Arapaho by the United States under the Medicine Lodge Treaty signed in 1867.
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]
The Arapaho (sáriʾitihka, 'dog eater') also moved into Pawnee territory. Collectively, the Pawnee referred to these tribes as cárarat ('enemy tribe') or cahriksuupiíruʾ (' enemy '). [ citation needed ] The Pawnee were occasionally at war with the Comanche ( raaríhtaʾ ) and Kiowa ( káʾiwa ) further south.
Friday, Arapaho Chief (ca. 1822-1881) interpreter and negotiator. Friday (Arapaho: Teenokuhu [1] or Warshinun (ca. 1822–1881), [2] also known as Friday Fitzpatrick, was an Arapaho leader and interpreter in the mid to late 1800s. When he was around the age of eight, he was separated from his band and was taken in by a white trapper.
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