Arapaho

[ uh-rap-uh-hoh ]

/ əˈræp əˌhoʊ /

a member of a tribe of North American Indians of Algonquian speech stock, once dwelling in the Colorado plains and now in Oklahoma and Wyoming.

an Algonquian language, the language of the Arapaho.

Example sentences from the Web for arapaho

This gives as recent additions to the class in question, the Blackfoot—the Shyenne—the Arapaho.

Opuscula |Robert Gordon Latham
This refers to the first coming among the Kiowa of Sitting-bull, the Arapaho prophet of the ghost dance, in the fall of 1890.

Calendar history of the Kiowa Indians. (1898 N 17 / 1895-1896 (pages 129-444)) |James Mooney
Let him take heed, or he too shall become a shooting-mark for the Arapaho warriors!

The Wild Huntress |Mayne Reid
They admitted that five war parties, three Cheyenne and two Arapaho, were yet in the field.

The Last American Frontier |Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson

Fitzpatrick had spent the summer of 1850 in summoning the bands of Cheyenne and Arapaho to the conference.

The Last American Frontier |Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson

Arapaho

/ (əˈræpəˌhəʊ) /

plural -hos or -ho a member of a North American Indian people of the Plains, now living chiefly in Oklahoma and Wyoming

the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family