What is Arapaho?
{{Infobox ethnic group |group = Arapaho |native_name = {{native name|arp|Hinono'eino|paren=omit}} |image = Flag of Arapaho Nation.svg |population = 10,861<ref>{{cite web|title=2010 Census CPH-T-6. American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes in the United States and Puerto Rico: 2010|url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2010/cph-t/t-6tables/TABLE%20(1).pdf|website=census.gov}}</ref> |popplace = {{Unbulleted list|United States|([[Colorado]], [[Oklahoma]], [[Nebraska]], [[Wyoming]])}} |langs = English, [[Arapaho language|Arapaho]], [[Plains Indian Sign Language|Plains Sign Language]] |rels = [[Christianity]], [[Peyotism]], [[Native American religion|Traditional religions]] |related = [[Algonquian people]], [[Cheyenne people]], [[Gros Ventre people]] }} The '''Arapaho''' ({{IPAc-en|ə|ˈ|r|æ|p|ə|h|oʊ}}; {{lang-fr|Arapahos}}, {{lang|fr|Gens de Vache}}) are a tribe of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] in the [[Plains Indians|Great Plains]]. They used to live on the plains of [[Colorado]] and [[Wyoming]]. They were close friends of the [[Cheyenne]] tribe. They were barely friends with the [[Lakota people|Lakota]] and [[Dakota people|Dakota]]. ==History== ===Early history=== Around 3,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Arapaho-speaking people (''Heeteinono'eino{{'}}'') lived in the western Great Lakes region. They lived there along the [[Red River Valley]]. This would be in what is present-day [[Manitoba]], Canada and [[Minnesota]], United States.<ref>Pritzker 319</ref> The Arapaho were an agricultural people. They grew crops, including [[maize]].<ref>Pritzker 297</ref> ==Language== The [[Arapaho language]] is currently spoken in two different dialects. It is considered to be a part the Algonquian language family. There are only about 250 fluent speakers of Northern Arapaho. Most of them live on the [[Wind River Indian Reservation|Wind River Reservation]] in Wyoming. There are even fewer fluent Southern Arapaho speakers. All of them are very old.<re