词条 | Arapaho |
释义 | Arapaho people ![]() Like many other tribes that moved from the East to the Plains, the Arapaho became nomadic equestrians, living in tepees and depending on buffalo hunting for subsistence. They also gathered wild plant foods and traded buffalo products for corn (maize), beans, squash, and European manufactured goods; their main trading partners were the farming Mandan and Arikara tribes in what are now North and South Dakota and the Spanish in the Southwest. Traditionally, the Arapaho were a highly religious people for whom everyday actions and objects (e.g., beadwork designs) had symbolic meanings. Their chief object of veneration was a flat pipe that was kept in a sacred bundle with a hoop or wheel. The Arapaho practiced the Sun Dance, and their social organization included age-graded military and religious societies. From early times the Arapaho were continually at war with the Shoshone, the Ute, and the Pawnee. The southern Arapaho were for a long period closely associated with the southern Cheyenne; some Arapaho fought with the Cheyenne against Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer (Custer, George Armstrong) at the Little Bighorn (Little Bighorn, Battle of the) in 1876. In the Treaty of Medicine Lodge in 1867, the southern Arapaho were assigned a reservation in Oklahoma together with the Cheyenne, while the northern Arapaho were assigned a reservation in Wyoming with the Shoshone. Early 21st-century population estimates indicated some 15,000 individuals of Arapaho descent. |
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