Arapaho Tribe

The Arapaho (Arapahoe) Tribe is primarily associated with the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.

Linguistic Group: Algonkian

Cultural Group: Plains Indians

Originaly inhabited: Great Lakes area and northern Minnesota, moving on to North Platte and Arkansas Rivers in Colorado Territory

Atsine or Gros Ventre are a branch of the Arapaho.

Population: 1990: 7,000

Location today: Northern Arapho in southern Wyoming and northenr Colorado and the Souther Arapaho in Oklahoma and southern Kansas

Brief Timeline

 * 1700: migrate from Great Lakes region into the Great Plains
 * 1835: the tribe diveded in to the Northern Arapaho who settle near the Rocky Mountains (Wyoming) and Southern Arapaho who settle near Arkansas River (Colorado).
 * 1851: Treaty at Fort Larimie
 * 1861: Treaty


 * 1864: Sand Creek Massacre, 130 Southern Areapho and Cheyenne many women and children are killed by the U.S. Army, under the direction of Colonel John M. Covington
 * 1865: Treaties
 * 1867: Treaty of Medicine Lodge, Southern Arapaho placed on a Reservation in Oklahoma, shared by the Cheyenne
 * 1868: at Fort Laramie, Treaty Northern Arapho were assigned to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota with the Sioux but they sought there own lands.
 * 1876: Northern Arapaho rejected proposal to rejoin with the Southern Arapho
 * 1878: Northern Arapaho assigned to the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, shared with the Shoshone who were former enemy

Reservations
This tribe is primarily associated with the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming.

Northern Arapaho assigned to the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming in 1876; sharing the reservation with the Shoshone

Southern Arapaho removed to reservation in western Oklahoma in 1867; sharing the reservation with the Cheyenne

Additional References to the History of the Tribe
Frederick Webb Hodge, in his Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, gave a more complete history of the Arapaho tribe, with estimations of the population of the tribe at various time periods. Additional details are given in David Bushnell's Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi.

For additional history of the tribe, read more....

Tribal Headquarters
Northern Arapaho Nation:

Phone: 307.332-.6120 or 307.856.3461 Fax: 307.332.7543

Records
Agencies


 * Upper Platte Agency
 * Upper Arkansas Agency
 * Pine Ridge Agency
 * Wind River Agency
 * Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency
 * Shoshoni Agency
 * Cantonment Agency

Correspondence and Census

Treaties


 * 1851 September 17, at Fort Laramie
 * 1861 February 18, at Fort Wise
 * October 14, 1861, at Little Arkansas River
 * 1865 October 17,
 * 1865
 * October 28, 1867, at Council Camp
 * 1867 Treaty of Medicine Lodge
 * 1868 April 29, at Fort Laramie
 * May 10, 1868, at Fort Laramie

Vital Records:


 * Cheyenne and Arapaho, M595, Births and Deaths 1925-1934, FHL Film: 574191

Important Web Sites

 * Northern Arapaho Tribe Official Website
 * Wikipedia article on the Arapaho