Hinono'eino

The Hinono'eino, 'people of our own kind', were the Arapaho proper, the central band of the Arapaho nation, speaking its Algonquian tongue. Their ancestors were farming villagers of the western Great Lakes, pushed west with the early Cheyenne by gun-armed Ojibwe, and entered the Great Plains before 1700.

On the northern plains they ranged from the South Saskatchewan River into Montana and Wyoming, hauling lodges with dog travois until horses in the early eighteenth century made them nomadic bison hunters. They once fought the Beesowuunenno band for the tribe's sacred pipe and lance.

As the Arapaho drifted south they split into Northern and Southern divisions; around 1811 the Hinono'eino bands joined the Cheyenne in a lasting alliance, and by 1826 the Arapaho and their allies had driven the Kiowa and Comanche south.