n., pl., Arapaho, or -hos, also Arapahoe or -hoes.
- A Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and southeast Wyoming, with present-day populations in Oklahoma and central Wyoming. Traditional Arapaho life was based on the buffalo-hunting culture of the Great Plains.
- A member of this people.
- The Algonquian language of the Arapaho.
[Crow aaraxpéahu, those with many tattoos.]
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