SKETCH OF THE ARAPAHO 



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of the tribe and numbered 1,091 in 1892. They have five bands: 

 1. Wa'quithi, '-bad faces." the principal band and the one to which the 

 head chief, Left Hand, belongs; 2, Aqa'thine'na, "pleasant men;" 

 ."., < biwiine'na or Ga'wunehana (Kawiuahan, '-black people'' — Hoyden), 

 "Blackfeet," so called because said to be of part Blaekfoot blood, the 

 same name being applied to the Blaekfoot tribe; i, Ha'qihana, -'wolves," 

 because they had a wolf (not coyote) for medicine: 5, Ssisa'ba-ithi, 

 "looking up," or according to another authority, " looking around, i. e., 

 watchers or lookouts." Under the treaty of Medicine Lodge in 1SII7, 

 they ami the southern Cheyenne were, placed on the reservation which 

 they sold in 1890 to take allotments and become citizens. Their present 



Fig. 88 — Arapaho tipi and windbreak. 



chief is Left Hand (Xawat). who succeeded the celebrated Little Haven 

 (llosa) a few years ago. The whole number of the Arapaho and Gros 

 Ventres, including a few in eastern schools, is about 2,700. 



Until very recently the Arapaho have been a typical prairie tribe, 

 living in skin tipis and following the buffalo in its migrations, yet they 

 retain a tradition of a time when they were agricultural. They are 

 of a friendly, accommodating disposition, religious and contemplative, 

 without the truculent, pugnacious character that belongs to their con- 

 federates, the Cheyenne, although they have always proven themselves 

 brave warriors. They are also less mercenary and more tractable than 

 the prairie Indians generally, and having now recognized the inevitable 

 of civilization have gone to work in good faith to make the best of it. 



