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See also:ARAPAHO (possibly from the See also:Pawnee for " trader ") , a tribe of See also:North See also:American See also:Indians of Algonquian stock . They formerly ranged over the central portion of the plains between the See also:Platte and See also:Arkansas . They were a brave, warlike, predatory tribe . With the See also:Sioux and Cheyennes they waged unremitting warfare upon the Utes . The See also:southern divisions of the tribe were placed (1867) on a See also:reservation in the See also:west of See also:Indian Territory (now See also:Oklahoma), while the See also:northern are in western See also:Wyoming . The southern See also:section sold their reservations in 1892 and became American citizens . The Arapahos number in all some 2000 . See INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; H . R . See also:Schoolcraft, See also:History of the Indian Tribes of the See also:United States (1851–1857, 6 vols.) ; Handbook of American Indians, ed . F . W . See also:Hodge (See also:Washington, 1907) . |
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