They left behind their villages and abandoned their corn/maize culture to adopt a new lifestyle on the Plains.īy the early 1700s, the Arapaho people had become a dominate trading group and had become nomadic buffalo-hunters. They had been chased from their agricultural villages near the headwaters of the Mississippi River into a new land. The Arapaho first appeared in the Great Plains sometime in the late 1600’s. With this mission in mind, this website and blog is devoted to the stories and historical accounts of the Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation. We will be heard and people will know that the Arapaho are still here. Our tribe is growing strong again and our stories have found a voice. But that does not mean we have disappeared. Within just a few generations, our people have stopped speaking our language, the age based societies have disappeared and our traditions are fading from memory. It is with a heavy heart that I realize that so much knowledge has already been lost to us. Fortunately, there are Elders, Teachers and Students in our tribe and many others who we have adopted, willing to devote their time to saving our Arapaho heritage. There is so much to learn and to do to preserve our stories. Tous! My Grandmother was She-Who-Couldn’t-Catch-Her-Breath and sometimes, as I examine the complex Arapaho history and our legends, I am left breathless as well.
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