Arapaho
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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 quillwork pouch, late 19th century, Brooklyn Museum
Arapaho dress
Ledger drawing of a mounted Arapaho warrior fighting a group of Navajo or Pueblo warriors, c. 1880
Ledger drawing of a scene from the massacre by Cheyenne eyewitness and artist Howling Wolf.
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes
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The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes are a united, federally recognized tribe of Southern Arapaho and Southern Cheyenne people in western Oklahoma. They are headquartered in Concho, Oklahoma.
Arapaho
…of the Cheyenne tribe and loosely aligned with the Lakota and Dakota. By the 1850s, Arapaho bands formed two tribes, namely the Northern Arapaho and Southern Arapaho. Since 1878, the Northern Arapaho have lived with the Eastern Shoshone on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming and are federally recognized as the…
Arapaho camp, 1868
Signing the Ft. Laramie Treaty, 1868
Cheyenne-Arapaho tribal member, peace chief, and artist, Harvey Pratt
Suzan Shown Harjo, Cheyenne-Muscogee activist, author, poet, and policy maker