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  Arapaho on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
One group, the Northern Arapaho, continued to live on the North Platte River in Wyoming, while the Southern Arapaho moved south to the Arkansas River in Colorado.
Traditionally the Southern Arapaho were allied with the Cheyenne against the Pawnee.
Their annual sun dance was a major tribal event, and later the Arapaho adopted the Ghost Dance religion.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/arapaho.asp   (621 words)

  
 Native Americans: Arapaho Indian History and Culture
As a complement to our Arapaho language information, we would like to share our collection of indexed links about the Arapaho people and various aspects of their society.
Arapaho history is interesting and important, but the Arapaho are still here today, too, and we have tried to feature modern writers as well as traditional folklore, contemporary art as well as museum pieces, and the issues and struggles of today as well as the tragedies of yesterday.
Extensive ethnography of the Arapaho and neighboring Indians.
www.native-languages.org /arapaho_culture.htm   (339 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Arapaho (North American Indigenous Peoples) - Encyclopedia
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Arapaho[urap´uhO] Pronunciation Key, Native North Americans of the Plains whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages).
See G. Dorsey and A. Kroeber, Traditions of the Arapaho (1903, repr.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Arapaho.html   (353 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: American Indians
The nose is usually straight and well shaped, and in some tribes strongly aquiline.
Height and weight vary as among Europeans, the Pueblos averaging but little more than five feet, while the Cheyenne and Arapaho are exceptionally tall, and the Tehuelche of Patagonia almost massive in build.
As a rule, the desert Indians, as the Apache, are spare and muscular in build, while those of the timbered regions are heavier, although not proportionately stronger.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07747a.htm   (10210 words)

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