The mainstay of the food that the Arapaho tribe ate included the meat from all the native animals that were available to hunt including the buffalo, deer, elk, bear and wild turkey. These meats were supplemented with roots, herbs and wild vegetables such as spinach, prairie turnips and potatoes.

To add to their diets, they caught fish and gathered wild plants, such as spinach, prairie turnips, potatoes, herbs, and fruits. The Arapaho also ate dried buffalo meat, called pemmican, which would keep for a long time and could be eaten when other foods were scarce.

Native American Cookery As versatile as Europeans, they baked, boiled, fried, and roasted their food, using local ingredients to make extremely healthy dishes. Native peoples used stones as slabs for cooking or as bowls for grinding food like maize into flour.

The Arapaho lived in teepees made from buffalo skins that could be easily erected and taken down as the tribe moved from place to place. Becoming expert buffalo hunters, the buffalo provided them with virtually everything they needed. They also hunted for elk and deer, fished, and ate various berries, and plants.

The Arapaho spoke in the Algonquian language. The Arapaho’s food was buffalo, deer, elk, bear and wild turkey. They also ate wild berries, fruits, roots, herbs and wild vegetables such as spinach, prairie turnips and potatoes.

Since 1878, the Northern Arapaho have lived with the Eastern Shoshone on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming and are federally recognized as the Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River Reservation. The Southern Arapaho live with the Southern Cheyenne in Oklahoma.

c. 1851) was an Arapaho woman who participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. She lived to be at least 101 years old and reportedly became a war chief….

A: No. There is no tribe of Indians that is predominantly blue-eyed.