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A·rap·a·ho

also A·rap·a·hoe (ə-răp′ə-hō′)

n. pl. Arapaho or A·rap·a·hos also Arapahoe or A·rap·a·hoes

1. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and southeast Wyoming, with present-day populations in Oklahoma and central Wyoming. Traditional Arapaho life was based on the buffalo-hunting culture of the Great Plains.

2. The Algonquian language of the Arapaho.

[Crow aaraxpéahu, those with many tattoos.]

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Arapaho

(əˈræpəˌhəʊ)

npl -hos or -ho

1. (Peoples) a member of a North American Indian people of the Plains, now living chiefly in Oklahoma and Wyoming

2. (Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family

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A•rap•a•ho

or A•rap•a•hoe

(əˈræp əˌhoʊ)

n., pl. -hos or -hoes (esp. collectively) -ho or -hoe.

1. a member of a Plains Indian people resident on the upper drainages of the Platte and Arkansas rivers in the mid-19th century: surviving groups live in Wyoming and Oklahoma.

2. the Algonquian language or languages of the Arapaho.

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Noun	1.	Arapaho - a member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming) Arapahoe Algonquian, Algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian - a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America
	2.	Arapaho - the Algonquian language spoken by the Arapaho Arapahoe Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains

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Once in the course of two or three years they abandon their usual abodes, and make a visit to the Arapahoes of the Arkansas.

The band in question was, at this time, on their way homeward from one of their customary visits to the Arapahoes; and in the ensuing chapter we shall treat of some bloody encounters between them and the trappers, which had taken place just before the arrival of Captain Bonneville among the mountains.

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In 1838 the Cheyennes and Arapahoes moved en masse and attacked the Kiowas and Comanches on Wolf Creek, in what is now Oklahoma.