ARAPAHO (possibly from the

See also:

• PAWNEE
• PAWNEE (perhaps from the native word fer " horn," in allusion to their scalping lock, which was " dressed " so as to stand straight up)

Pawnee for " trader ")  , a tribe of North American Indians of Algonquian stock . They formerly ranged over the central portion of the plains between the Platte and Arkansas . They were a brave, warlike, predatory tribe . With the Sioux and Cheyennes they waged unremitting warfare upon the Utes . The southern divisions of the tribe were placed (1867) on a reservation in the west of Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), while the northern are in western Wyoming . The southern section sold their reservations in 1892 and became American citizens . The Arapahos number in all some 2000 . See INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; H . R . Schoolcraft, History of the Indian Tribes of the United States (1851–1857, 6 vols.) ; Handbook of American Indians, ed . F . W .

Hodge (Washington, 1907) .