English: Title: Bulletin

Identifier: bulletin3011907smit Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Subjects: Ethnology Publisher: Washington : G. P. O. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: 72 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.—BolInert 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

Text Appearing After Image: 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

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