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ARAPAHO (possibly from the Pawnee for " trader ")

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 319 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: APO-ARN
ARAPAHO (possibly from the Pawnee for " trader ") , a tribe of
North
  American Indians of Algonquian stock. They formerly ranged over the central portion of the plains between the Platte and
Arkansas
 . They were a brave, warlike, predatory tribe. With the Sioux and Cheyennes they waged unremitting warfare upon the Utes. The southern divisions of the tribe were placed (1867) on a
reservation
  in the west of Indian Territory (now
Oklahoma
 ), while the northern are in western
Wyoming
 . The southern
section
  sold their reservations in 1892 and became American citizens. The Arapahos number in all some 2000.
See INDIANS,
NORTH
  AMERICAN; H. R.
Schoolcraft
 ,
History
  of the Indian Tribes of the United States (18511857, 6 vols.) ; Handbook of American Indians, ed. F. W. Hodge (Washington, 1907).


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