Hi there! Welcome to Stories That Made Us. In this episode, we explore the creation myths of two Native American Tribes, the Arikara and the Arapaho.

The Arikara are semi-sedentary agricultural people of North America. They are also known as Sahnish, Arikaree, or Hundi, are a tribe of Native Americans who've traditionally lived in North Dakota. The peoples of this tribe speak a Caddoan language, quite similar to the Skidi-Pawnee tribe, with whom the Arikara were once closely associated. After many conflicts with other tribes and several major migrations, the Arikara settled with the Mandans and other native Americans in South Dakota. It is said that the term Arikara comes from the word Ariki, which means horn. The story goes that the Arikara once used bones to hold up their hair-like horns.

The Arapaho have historically lived in Wyoming and Colorado in the United States. Arapaho is a name that was given to the tribe by the Europeans. They natives refer to their own selves as Hinono'eino or Inun-ina ("our people" or "people of our own kind"). The Arapaho had extensive trade relations with many other tribes, especially the Cheyenne, Lakota, Dakota, Caddo, Wichita, and Comanche. This episode is their tales of our creation!

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Voyeur

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Forest of Fear

Artist: Aakash Gandhi

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Day of Chaos by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Lost Frontier by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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D5 Native American Style Flute 2

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Snowhunter - kakuindeitsev

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Realization

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