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The Arapaho (/ ə ˈ r æ p ə h oʊ / ə-RAP-ə-hoh; French: Arapahos, Gens de Vache) are a Native American people historically living on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming.They were close allies of the Cheyenne tribe and loosely aligned with the Lakota and Dakota.
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]
The Arapaho are a tribe of Native Americans from the western Great Plains, in the area of eastern Colorado and Wyoming.Traditional Arapaho music, described by Bruno Nettl (1965, p. 150), includes sacred and secular songs.
The United States hoped that tribes like the Crow, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Lakota, and Arapaho would attack their traditional Shoshone enemies instead of the miners. However, the area was too dangerous for the Shoshone to occupy year-round, so Chief Washakie kept his people closer to Fort Bridger for several years after 1868.
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.
The Arapaho Project" is an effort made by the Arapaho people to promote and restore their traditional language and culture. [8] Despite hope for the language, its relatively few active users and the fact that it has seen recent population decreases render Arapaho an endangered language .
Jeffrey D. Anderson is an American anthropologist who specializes in Arapaho culture and Arapaho language and culture. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Raymond D. Fogelson. He is currently Professor of Anthropology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Black Coal's name Wo’óoseinee’ [2] refers to a story of him rolling in black ashes after a victory in a fight. (The name is not a reference to coal, the fossil fuel.) He rose to prominence due to his war deeds in the 1860s in the Powder River Country, in which the Arapaho allied with war parties of the Lakota and Cheye