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Margaret Coel (born October 11, 1937, in Denver, Colorado) is an American historian and mystery writer who lives in Boulder, Colorado. Coel is a fourth-generation Coloradan and grew up in Denver. [1] She graduated in journalism from Marquette University in 1960 and worked on the Boulder Daily Camera. [2]
Margaret Coel has written a series of mystery novels set on the Wind River Reservation featuring Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley, pastor of the fictional St. Francis mission. The actual Roman Catholic mission on the reservation is the Saint Stephen's Indian Mission.
Chief Niwot (Arapaho: Nowoo3 [nɔ'wɔːθ]) or Left Hand(-ed) (c. 1825–1864) was a Southern Arapaho chief, diplomat, and interpreter who negotiated for peace between white settlers and the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush and Colorado War.
Margaret Behan (born 1948), Arapaho-Cheyenne spiritual elder; William "Hawk" Birdshead Philanthropist, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Sherman Coolidge (Runs-on-Top) (1862–1932), Episcopal minister and educator in the Wind River community who was a founding member of the Society of American Indians. [53]
The name Arapaho originates in the Pawnee term tirapihu (or larapihu), meaning, "He buys or trades", probably due to their being the dominant trading group in the Great Plains region. 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 ...
Arapahoe (Arapaho: Hinono'ei') is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,656 at the 2010 census. [2] A Catholic mission was founded here in 1884. St Stephen's Mission Church, located near Arapahoe, is part of the Catholic mission. [5]
Actress Ann-Margret, who became a household name in the 1960s with roles in 'Bye Bye Birdie' and 'Viva Las Vegas,' is now 78 years old.
An Arapaho buckskin ghost shirt, ca 1890 Ghost shirts are shirts, or other clothing items, worn by members of the Ghost Dance religion, and thought to be imbued with spiritual powers. The religion was founded by Wovoka (Jack Wilson), a Northern Paiute Native American, in the late 19th century and quickly spread throughout the Indigenous peoples ...