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ARAMAY ARAPAHO 



[b. a. e. 



Aramay. A former village, presuma- 

 bly Costanoan, connected with Dolores 

 mission, San Francisco, Cal. — Taylor in 

 Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. 



Aranama. A small agricultural tribe 

 formerly living on and near the s. coast 

 of Texas; later they were settled for a 

 time at the mission of Espiritu Santo de 

 Zuniga, opposite the present Goliad, 

 where some Karankawa Indians were 

 also neophytes. It is rei)orted that they 

 had previously suffered from an attack 

 by the Karankawa. Morse located them 

 in 1822 on San Antonio r. and estimated 

 them at 125 souls. In 1834 Escudero 

 (Not. Estad. de Chihuahua, 231) spoke 

 of them as follows: "The same coast 

 and its islands are inhabited by the 

 Curancahuases and Jaranames Indians, 

 fugitives from the missions. The larger 

 portion have lately settled in the new 

 mission of Nuestra Senora del Refugio, 

 and to-day very few rebellious families re- 

 main, so that the injuries caused l)y these 

 cowardly but cruel Indians have (teased." 

 As a tribe the Aranama were extinct by 

 1843. (a. c.F.) 



Anames.— Rivera, Diario v Derrot., leg. 2,602, 1736. 

 Aranamas.— Thrall, Hist. Texas, 446, 1879. Ara- 

 names. — Rivera, op. cit. Arrenamuses, — Mcirse, 

 Rep. to Sec. War, 374, 1822. Aurananeans. — Bou- 

 dinot, Star in the West, 125, 1816. Hazanames. — 

 Robin, Voy. a la Louisiane, iii, 14, 1^07. Jara- 

 names. — Escudero, Not. Estad. de Chiliiiah\ia, 2;>1 , 

 1834. Juranames. — Morfi quoted liv Kancn ift, No. 

 Mex. States, I, 631, 1886. Xaramenes.—Bol Inert 

 in Ethnol. Soc. Lend. Jour., ii, 265. 280, 1850. 

 Xaranames,— Texas State Archives, MS. no. 83, 

 1791 92. 



Aranca. The name of two Pima vil- 

 lages in s. Ariz., one with 208 inhabi- 

 tants in 1858, the other with 991.— Bailev 

 in Ind. Aff. Rep., 208, 1858. 



Aranimokw. The Yurok name of a 

 Karok village near Red Cap cr. , an 

 affluent of Klamath r., Cal. (a. l. k.) 



Arapaho. An important Plains tribe of 

 the great Algonquian family, closely asso- 

 ciated with the Cheyenne for at least a 

 century past. They call themselves Inii- 

 naina, about equivalent to 'our people.' 

 The name by which they are commonly 

 known is of uncertain derivation, but it 

 may possibly be, as Dunbar suggests, 

 from the Pawnee tintpihu or larapUm, 

 'trader.' By the Sioux and Cheyenne 

 they are called "Blue-i?ky men" or 

 "Cloud men," the reason for which is 

 unknown. 



According to the tradition of the Arap- 

 aho they were once a sedentary, agricul- 

 tural people, living far to the n. e. of their 

 more recent haliitat, apparently about 

 the Red r. valley of n. Minn. From 

 this point they moved s. w. across the 

 Missouri, apparently about the same 

 time that the Cheyenne (q. v. ) moved 

 out from Minnesota, although the date 

 of the formation of the permanent alli- 

 ance between the two tribes is uncertain. 



The Atsina (q. v.), afterward associated 

 with the Siksika, appear to have sepa- 

 rated from the parent tribe and moved 

 off toward the n. after their emergence 

 into the plains. The division into North- 

 ern and Southern Arapaho is largely 

 geographic, originating within the last 

 century, and made ]>ermanent by the 

 jilacing of the two bands on different res- 

 ervations. The Northern Arapaho, in 

 Wyoming, are considered the nucleus or 

 mother tribe and retain the sacred tribal 

 articles, viz, a tubular pipe, one ear of 

 corn, and a turtle figurine, all of stone. 



Since they crossed the Missouri the drift 

 of the Arapaho, as of the Cheyenne and 

 Sioux, has been w. and s., the Northern 

 Arapaho making lodges on the edge of 



SCABBY BULL — ARAPAHO 



the mountains about the head of the 

 North Platte, while the Southern Arap- 

 aho continued down toward the Arkan- 

 sas. About the year 1840 they made 

 peace with the Sioux, Kiowa, and Co- 

 manche, but were always at war with the 

 Shoshoni, Ute, and Pawnee until they 

 were contined upon reservations, while 

 generally maintaining a friendly attitude 

 toward the whites. By the treaty of 

 Medicine Lodge in 1867 the Southern 

 Arapaho, together with the Southern 

 Cheyenne, were placed upon a reserva- 

 tion in Oklahoma, which was thrown 

 open to white settlement in 1892, the 

 Indians at the same time receiving allot- 

 ments in severalty, with the rights of 

 American citizenship. The Northern 

 Arapaho were assigned to their present 



