How to Use Arapaho in a Sentence

Arapaho

noun
  • Orange is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes and was raised in the Oakland area.
    Doug George, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Posey grew up on the reservation in a house without running water and was the youngest of 13 siblings born to a Shoshone and Arapaho father and a Cheyenne mother.
    Cy Neff, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
  • Starting our stroll around the water, Benton pointed out that long before Bird’s arrival, the area was inhabited by the Ute and Arapaho people.
    Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Prehistoric mammoth hunters roamed here for thousands of years, followed by the Ute and Arapaho people who summered within the current park bounds until the early 1800s.
    Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2023
  • One recurring pattern is the dominance of nouns in English, compared to the emphasis on verbs in many Indigenous languages, such as Potawatomi and Arapaho.
    Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2023
  • Posey is enrolled Eastern Shoshone and has Northern Arapaho descendancy - being enrolled means that someone is a legal, 'card-carrying' member of a tribal nation.
    Cy Neff, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024

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