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now about Cantonment in Oklahoma; the Haxaa"9ine'na° 

 ("ridiculous men "), on the South Canadian, in Oklahoma ; and 

 the Baa"tciine'na" ("red- willow men"), in Wyoming. The 

 fourth the informant had forgotten. Apparently correspond- 

 ing to these were the four head chiefs that the Arapaho for- 

 merly had. These bands were properly subdivisions of the 

 Hinanae'ina" subtribe, and appear to have been local divis- 

 ions. A man belonged to the band in which he was born or 

 with which he lived; sometimes he would change at marriage. 

 When the bands were separate, the people in each camped 

 promiscuously and without order. When the whole tribe was 

 together, it camped in a circle that had an opening to the 

 east. The members of each band then camped in one place 

 in the circle. All dances were held inside the camp-circle. 



There are no clans, gentes, or totemic divisions among the 

 Arapaho. The local bands of the Gros Ventres seem, how- 

 ever, to partake also of the nature of gentes. 



All informants agree that the tribe against which the 

 Arapaho fought most were the Utes, the bravest (after them- 

 selves). An old man said that the Arapaho fought most with 

 the Utes because they were the strongest, and next with 

 the Pawnees because they were the fiercest, and that the 

 Osages and Pawnees were the first Indians that wished to 

 establish friendly ties with the Arapaho. His son has a model 

 of the pipe with which friendship was made with these tribes. 

 A younger man said that his ears had been pierced by visiting 

 Osages, because his father had formerly fought chiefly with 

 them. 



The first whites with whom the Arapaho came into contact 

 were Mexicans. The word for "white man" is nih'a'"ca", 

 which is also the name of the mythic character that corre- 

 sponds to the Ojibway Manabozho. This word also means 

 "spider." 



The Arapaho had four chiefs, as against five of the Chey- 

 ennes. They also had no official principal chief, while the 

 Cheyennes did have one. When one of the four head chiefs 



died, another was chosen from among the dog-company 



men about fifty years old, who have performed the fourth of 



