Arapaho Indians The Arapaho Indians are a commonly known Native American tribe. Their name according to the Pawnee means “trader” or from the Crow it means “tattooed people”. The Arapaho tribe was known to live in the eastern plains of Colorado and Wyoming. Soon after the Plains culture was put into effect the tribe decided to split into two different tribes: the Northern Arapahos and the Southern Arapahos. The Northern Arapaho continue to live in Wyoming, while the Southern Arapaho lives with the Southern Cheyenne, in which the tribe were close allies during the Indian Wars, in Oklahoma. Unfortunately, there isn’t a direct historical evidence to show when or how the Arapahos came into the Plains culture area. It is said that before the European expansion, they were likely to have lived in the Great Lakes area, as well as Canada, Minnesota and North Dakota. Soon, they decided to …show more content…
Although the origin of this name is still unclear, there are speculations that it may have come from the Pawnee word, “tirapihu” or in other words, “traders”. But, it also have come from the Crow word, “Alappaho” which translates into the meaning, “people with many tattoos”. Their allies, the Cheyenne were referred to as “people of the sky” or “cloud people”. Present day, the tribe themselves refer to themselves as the “Hinono-eino” which translates to “our people”. Yet, of course they use the word Arapaho sometimes spelt, “Arapahoe” as a title of their tribe. Before the Arapahos were exposed to North America, where they saw that horses were a faster and quicker way of transportation, they relied on dogs to pull them and their belongings. They were so desperate for this new way of life, they took matters into their own hands and decided to attack the Pawnee and Comanche to obtain their want of horses, and to become more successful hunters. This now allowed them to become well accomplished traders, and rapidly started selling furs to other