The Arapaho 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.
Arapaho dress
Pouch, Arapaho (Native American), Late 19th or early 20th century, Brooklyn Museum
Painting of Black Man, an Arapaho warrior with face paint and feathers. By E. A. Burbank, 1899.
Ledger drawing of a mounted Arapaho warrior fighting a group of Navajo or Pueblo warriors, c. 1880
Colorado is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Colorado borders Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas to the east, Oklahoma to the southeast, New Mexico to the south, Utah to the west, and meets Arizona to the southwest at the Four Corners. Colorado is noted for its landscape of mountains, forests, high plains, mesas, canyons, plateaus, rivers, and desert lands. Colorado is one of the Mountain States and is often considered to be part of the southwestern United States. The high plains of Colorado may be considered a part of the midwestern United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is the eighth most extensive and 21st most populous U.S. state. The United States Census Bureau estimated the population of Colorado at 5,877,610 as of July 1, 2023, a 1.80% increase since the 2020 United States census.
The ruins of the Cliff Palace of Mesa Verde, photographed by Gustaf Nordenskiƶld in 1891
Great Kiva at Chimney Rock in the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado. It was built by the Ancient Pueblo peoples.
The Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center & Museum in Dolores
Mount of the Holy Cross, photographed by William Henry Jackson in 1874