Organizers paid $300 to six men to act as cavalry soldiers. But the men set off earlier than planned by firing blanks, scaring the Cheyenne and Arapaho people who had agreed to camp at the site for ...

One of the core values at Arapahoe High School in Colorado is honoring and nurturing its relationship with the Northern Arapaho Tribe. This tradition has been central to the school's identity for more ...

There are only about 50 people worldwide who are native speakers of the Arapaho language. The only native speakers left are part of the Northern Arapaho Tribe in Wyoming, according to University of ...

Friday, Nov. 29, marks a grim milestone for the state of Colorado- 160 years since the Sand Creek Massacre. Nov. 19, 1864, is the deadliest day in Colorado history. That's when United States soldiers ...

I was hired at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1995 as a language professor. I relocated from Hawaii, where I had learned the Hawaiian language. When I arrived in Colorado, I decided I needed to ...

In the 1860s, Indigenous people were removed from Colorado’s Front Range and Eastern Plains. As part of that campaign, on one day alone, more than 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho people were murdered by U.S.

As the sun rose on a cold morning in 1868, hundreds of U.S. soldiers, led by Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, attacked Cheyenne families camped for the winter along the Washita River. Stories passed ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrew Cowell, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) I was hired at the ...