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The Arapaho Tribe The Arapaho, who call themselves 'Inuna-ina', are close allies with the Cheyenne. This name is roughly translated into 'our people'. The Arapho tribe was represented by a large delegation of 24 from Oklahoma. The Araphoe are considered to be buffalo hunters of the plains but also have traditions of a time when they lived in the east and planted corn. The Arapaho, numbering in ...

ARAPAHO The Arapahos, like the Cheyennes and Sioux with whom they are closely associated in the Indian wars, were thought to have migrated onto the Great Plains sometime in the 17th or 18th century from the east, but probably from a region further north, perhaps the vicinity of the Red River of the North. Also, like the Cheyennes, they eventually separated into two groups. Those that came to be ...